The National Police from Alicante investigates a complaint for a homophobic aggression Presented by Daniel, a 20 -year -old who the past received a bottle on his face after being insulted for being gay and suffered fractures of bones in his nose.
The events occurred at dawn last Sunday in a central street of Alicante And the complainant has uploaded a video to Instagram where he affirms that he was released a bottle “for being gay and for being dressed.”
Daniel intends that the diffusion of the video helps to identify the three young people involved in homophobic aggression and also serve to keep society alert because hate is still normalized and the gay collective continues to suffer problems, although it seems that progress has been produced. “They have advanced in what they invest in pride, but security for gay people does not exist.”
The attack occurred between Bailén and Candida streets Jimeno Gargallo. Daniel was going to take a taxi in La Rambla when he began to receive “homophobic insults” from three young people. According to the complainant, they were making “dawned movements at the same time that they called me fag.” Daniel was recording the scene with his mobile when one of the young people threw the bottle back and gave him fully in his nose.
The victim appears in the video with the wound in the nose and the three young people walking in front of the complainant are also observed. One of them Lanhes a glass bottle backward and impacts the young man who has denounced a homophobic aggression.
The young man went to a hospital, where he was examined and appreciated deviation from the nasal septum and bone fractures in the nose.
The complaint was filed on Monday at the Centro District Police Station and the investigation has been assumed by a group of the information brigade specialized in combating hate crimes.
The complainant has claimed help on his Instagram profile to try to identify the authors of the aggression. “Being gay is not the problem; the problem is homophobia. And homophobia is fought with visibility, with education, with love, dignity,” says Daniel in his social networks.
Daniel has pointed out to this newspaper that he is “very grateful” by having received a massive support from many official groups and organizations. Daniel has made his case public both for him and “for those who could not tell -who have already died -for whom they are afraid and for all those who come from behind.”
Daniel's message on social networks is clear: “Fear will not shut us up; hate will not stop us.” The young man says he is not “to stop being who I am” nor will he hide: “I came to this life to live, to love, to enjoy it without fear. And nobody is going to take away that. If my freedom, my brightness and my existence they bother that is not my problem.”
Diversity drives the Homophobo Attack
Diversitat wanted to express his “more absolute condemnation of the brutal homophobic attack suffered by a 20 -year -old, violently attacked by their sexual orientation and gender expression at the hands of three young Spaniards. “
“This act of hate is not an isolated fact, but the direct result of hate speeches that are being normalized in our society, encouraged by the extreme right and by the regressive policies that are cutting the rights of the LGTBI+ collective in the Valencian Community, “says the collective.
Juan David SantiagoPresident of Diversitat, has declared that “what has happened is intolerable and deeply painful. They are assaulting us in the streets, in the institutes and in public spaces, and they do so under political speeches that legitimize violence against people LGTBI+. When protection laws are dismantled and homophobia are bleached from institutions, these are the results: young people who are “.
From Diversitat “we demand that the authorities a firm condemnation without nuances, urgent measures of protection and the immediate recovery of public policies that guarantee the security and dignity of people LGTBI+. We are not going to go back to a step. We will not allow hate to snatch the streets or our lives.”
The collective shows its Total support and solidarity to the young man and his family, and puts at his disposal all his psychological and legal resources. It also calls civil society so that it does not remain indifferent to these attacks and to actively defend the rights and integrity of all people, without exception. “Not one more attack. Not one step back,” concludes his statement.
