At 12 p.m. on Saturday night, two young people were subjected to homophobic aggression in Plaza Unamuno in the capital of Biscay. Mauricio and Erik, two eighteen-year-old boys from Barakaldo and Bilbao, met five other people at the time of the events in the Casco Viejo. When the two friends of the group kissed, a man approached them, shouting that they were “puppets” and “whores.”

As recorded in the Basque Journal, Eric asked the man what he was saying, and he swooped over him. The young man pushed her and even tried to play. Meanwhile, Mauricio recorded what was happening and he also received blows. The two young men ran on foot on the opposite side, but the aggressor followed them to the Arenal, where they were in perfect condition.

When the man was abandoned, Erik and Mauritius met with a Municipal Police patrol on Los Fueros Street and told them what happened. The agents had to notify the ambulance, as one of the youths suffered an anxiety crisis after the aggression.

The video recorded by Mauritius allows security forces to identify the aggressor: Male from 26 to 28 years old. At the moment, no complaints have been lodged by young people, but the Municipal Police has indicated that the case will probably be referred to the courts.

Demonstration against homophobia

To denounce the attacks on the LGTBQ+ group, the coordinator E28 of Bizkaia and Vitoria-Gasteiz and the transmaribolloa coordinator of Donostia-San Sebastián called on Sunday the demonstration in the three capitals of the CAV. The march was organized in Coruña (Galicia) on the occasion of the murder a week ago of the young Samuel Luis Muñiz shot in the street. Last Sunday, the latest LGBTQfobas attacks in the Basque Country were also reported.