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6:30 in the morning Sunday September 1st. Valladolid enjoys its patron saint festivals. C. goes to do a 10-minute stretch to pick up his old friends, at disco of all life. These are not dark streets and even uncrowded. He stops at the 24-hour vending machine under the street and buys a bag to snack on for the rest of the journey. He needs to regain his strength to continue enjoying the Night in Valladolid.
However, just 30 seconds after turning the corner onto San Ignacio Street to reach the Plaza de Saint Brigitte He comes across three boys aged around 18-19.
“I see them laughing but I lower my head and walk past them, two meters after passing them, I hear them shouting at me and asking my name, to which I respond and immediately one of the three children approaches me, “He looks with contempt and without saying anything more than a fucking lesbian”, says the victim. And that’s when he hits her jaw, breaking it in two different places. “They left and I was left spitting blood”, he says cruelly. SPANISH News from Castile and Leon.
The victim admitted to hospital
Borrowed
“Thank God some boys came around the corner at the time of the punch and followed them while another boy stayed to help me. “They coordinated with the police, they located them, otherwise they would have gone home telling it between laughs as just another anecdote.”
There is a prisoner
Today, Thursday September 5th Sources of government subdelegation They confirmed that one person had been arrested in connection with the physical assault. The interrogation of the only detainee took place, during which the hate crime unit is documenting the events.
“This aggression has no justification.”“I didn’t provoke, I was defenseless and I was completely alone while there were three of them,” she says. In her case, she thinks they assumed that “I was a lesbian because of my haircut and they decided to believe that they had the power to attack me just for appearances, even though for these types of people they don’t care if you have short hair, long hair, short hair or girl, they only seek conflict. “Who knows what would have happened if, instead of short hair, they had long hair.”
He is a person who is very aware of the collective struggle. That is why he takes stock of the current situation. “Since we were little, they always put in our body the fear of having to go out alone in the street, because of the way we dress (mini skirts, dresses, makeup) or they teach us to be able to defend ourselves on certain occasions. (house keys in hand, talking on the phone all the time, sharing locations, etc.) but we are not to blame. But we must not teach them that there is no aggression, that the street belongs to them and that they can do what they want with anyone.
“It wasn’t my fault that they took my sexual condition for granted, my clothes (black jeans and a black sweatshirt) weren’t my fault, and it was even less my fault that I had crossed paths with them. We constantly struggle not to live in fear precisely because of people like that, but at 21, it seems impossible for me to go home alone,” she says harshly.
That is why he hopes that telling his story will serve to “give voice to all this because people think that Spain is a safe country or that we are evolving when in reality the only thing that happens is that either those who do it are not. We are caught or we are not caught.” We dare to report it for fear that something else will happen to us. “I am not afraid of them, I am afraid that there will be more like them and that these things will continue to happen.”
After the operation
After having surgery, just 24 hours ago, they put plates, screws, rubber bands, etc. “Apparently, I won’t be able to speak and I’m going to have to eat through a straw for the next 40 days, and from there I’ll progress.
Finally, he would like to thank the Police and Sacyl, “for the proximity and the tranquility” that they tried to transmit to him in all this chaos. “I’m still in shock because I don’t believe that at 21 they forced me to live this, I just hope that they pay for what they did to me and I hope that by giving them a voice, they will avoid attacks,” he concludes.
