An argument over a transport card ended with alleged attack racist by bus driver Barcelona Against a North African woman and her three children. “She told me to go to my country, she pulled my veil and called me a whore and a slut,” the victim, who was traveling with her three underage children, told the court at the Barcelona Court on Tuesday. His version was corroborated by a witness who witnessed it. The event that occurred on May 29, 2020, in the midst of the covid epidemic. “The man lost his mind while insulting the woman and struggled with the children,” she said.
The prosecution is seeking 10 months’ imprisonment, disqualification and fines, as well as 1,385 euros in damages, for the bus driver and the WSF for alleged crimes against moral integrity and three other petty offenses. Transportation Barcelona Metropolitans Although this legal entity’s lawyer claimed that the bus driver was an individual and did not act as a driver when he got out of the vehicle onto the public highway, it appears to be a secondary legal liability in the case. The defendant denied that he had assaulted and insulted the woman, stating that he only told him to get out of the vehicle and that he tried to take a photograph of her on the street to defend himself against what the woman had said. At the end of the trial, he said, “I’m not racist, I didn’t do anything. My only goal is for them to pay the price.”
Prosecutor clear: The accused “acted with motive”contempt, intolerance and intolerance” It addresses the cultural identity of women and their families. The “derogatory” statements of origin and foreign traditions, the high style, the environment in which he expresses himself (he exposed the family to the “taunts” of bus passengers) and “progress”
“You like to live in this country for free”
The woman and her children took the Line V bus from Plaza Alfons Comín to Barceloneta. It was 18:10. One of their transportation cards had expired and the driver ordered them to pay for the ticket. Allegedly, the accused gradually warmed up and started shouting, “You like living for free in this country,” and stated that they should leave the vehicle.
The illness of the victim and her children caused them to get off the bus. “Get off the bus, get off the bus. I thought: this man is no good“, At the hearing, the woman reminded. The driver took action and stopped the vehicle for about three meters and got out of the vehicle. With his mobile phone in his hand, he went directly to the complainant and his children and took their pictures.
Here the versions are opposed. The defendant explained that his aim was only to take pictures to defend himself against the attacks from the woman and he never attacked the woman or her children. However, the explanation of the complainant is different: The bus driver tried to take a photo of the woman with his mobile phone, pulling the veil that was covering her head and shouting “if you have to live like this, go to your country”. His children tried to stop him, but according to the prosecution, the bus driver scratched, grabbed, and pushed them, while yelling at the mother, “whore, bitch, go to your country” several times. “He pulled my handkerchief while he insulted me, he pulled the children,” the woman insisted. The eldest daughter also supported what her mother told, adding that while she was saying insults, the driver was looking at them from the corner of her eye in the rear view mirror. “I was nervous. She told us you were dirty, whores,” she explained. The trial was seen for sentencing.
Source: Informacion
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