Two young people accused of an alleged homophobic attack reported in San Vicente del Raspeig in 2021 will be tried in the Alicante Provincial Court on charges of hate crimes and injuring women. two young university studentsOne of them was scolded for his sexual status. Special charge imposed by lawyer José Moreno Bernal Requesting a road on behalf of two university students 5 and 6 years imprisonment For each defendant, the Prosecutor’s Office requests a prison sentence of 4 years, 6 months and 5 years, 6 months for the same crimes.
In addition to prison terms, the defendants were sentenced to seven years of restraint, a fine of 1,440 euros, and total compensation of 6,200 euros For injuries, their consequences and psychological help.
According to the charging documents submitted by the prosecutor’s office and the victim’s lawyer, the events took place at around 03:00 in the morning on June 24, 2021, at the scene of two university students in San Vicente del Raspeig. They returned to their homeland After celebrating Eid with another group of people San Juan’s night. The two defendants were allegedly riding a moped when they first encountered a group of approximately fifteen college students on Aeroplano Avenue in San Vicente. Young people on motorcycles stopped ask them for a cigarette but they said no because none of them smoked. They then began berating one of the university students, who was allegedly bisexual, and attacking his dignity and sexual orientation. So they started calling them “fags” and “fucking fags” and they left.
About half an hour had passed when the two defendants were traveling along Alicante Street in San Vicente del Raspeig when they encountered the same group of university students again, but only the two assault victims and a young woman remained. They approached again to ask for cigarettes, and when they refused to give them because they didn’t have tobacco, they began belittling them and calling them “fags” and “shitty fags” again, according to the accusations.
The young man they were with before homophobic and discriminatory behavior The prosecutor’s office and the special prosecutor’s office recognized him by noticing the young people on the motorcycle saying “yes, that’s the same fag from before”.
surprise attack
They then got off the motorcycle and approached the young people with their homophobic and anti-homophobic expressions and demonstrations. They attacked them suddenly and surprisingly. The charges indicate the attack had no apparent motive other than “observance and appreciation of the explicit sexual status” of the bisexual college student.
The two defendants used full-face motorcycle helmets to hit the victims. One of the defendants again called the bisexual young man a “faggot” and He hit his head hard with his helmetcausing a minor skull injury.
Immediately afterwards, the other defendant used his helmet to deliver a tremendous blow to the other college student’s face, causing him to fall to the ground, losing consciousness and several teeth.
The attackers escaped, but the victim of the homophobic attack managed to write the letter. moped registration where the authors had traveled and could be identified after stating this in the complaint.