“fag, bujarra, monstrosity. you shouldn’t have been born. We will finish you and yours. Fagot we will kill you, you won’t leave here“. These are expressions that Rafael Sevilla remembers hearing when 6 teenagers tipped him. head shots earlier this Saturday, at the end of an overpass in the neighborhood of Malilla (València) near the train tracks.
This was reported by the young man on social networks and confirmed by the Levante-EMV from the Prensa Ibérica group through the National Police and filed a complaint for homophobia. Agents arrived after the attack, when the young man lost consciousness, and took him, fortunately, to the hospital. Although he suffered a minor hearing loss, he was not seriously injured. for blows.
The complaint was filed before the Patraix police station this Monday morning, and the case has passed to the Information Police Brigade, a group of the National Police that specializes in investigating hate crimes, according to sources from the agency.
Rafael is 30 years old and was returning from a party while listening to music with his friends and saw a very young crowd. “I don’t know if everyone will reach 18, they were very very youngAs he passed, a group of children broke up and started walking behind him. I didn’t mind at first, but when I realized they were following me, I took off my headphones. “listening to music,” he says.
It was on an overpass on the tres tracks where he began to hear the insults. He says, “You stand up faggot, don’t run bujarra, don’t walk that fast. I thought if I ignored them they would stop.” But they did not stop. They immediately started running after him. “So I thought I had to get off the bridge because if they caught me there, who knows what they might do to me.“, to remember.
He was able to come all the way to the end of the overpass when the youths grabbed him and started punching him while heaping homophobic insults on him. “I just noticed a kick in my back and I fell to the ground,” she says. “They grabbed my arm so hard to take me to the vacant lot next to it, but I resisted. I was in shock and I started screaming really loud so they went from punching me to kicking my head to shut me up.‘ he says as his voice breaks. And he is unconscious.
Then he remembers being surrounded by neighbors and the National Police taking him to the hospital. “I’m not in shock right now and I don’t think I can leave the house on my own at night.“He regrets it. He says he wants to report his story so that people can know it. It should be known that these events continue today. Who knows what they could have done to me if no one listened to me.”
The Ministry of Interior recently published a report. hate crimes by LGTBIphobia tripled since before the pandemic. According to the report on the evolution of hate crimes released by the Ministry of Interior on Tuesday, there were 16 attacks against members of the LGBTI community in 2019, while there were 51 such incidents in 2021. This is the most common category of crime, as one of the four incidents investigated by the National Police is already related to sexual orientation or gender identity.