Last night there was an LGBTI-phobic attack at 9:15 p.m. inside a metro carriage on L1 at the Plaça Catalunya station, according to a complaint from the Observatory against homophobia.
A witness to the attack has recounted in a Twitter thread that the person attacked entered the wagon upset and a man began to reproach him for his appearance and behavior. According to this testimony, the victim asked the man up to three times to "leave her alone", but the attacker continued to mess with her. According to the video images that one of the subway passengers took, the man harassed the victim, insulting her and pushing her. At one point, he pulls her hair, ripping off the wig the victim is wearing who, although she tries to wriggle away, is kicked and punched.
The rest of the passengers attend the attack immobile until another of the passengers tries to calm the attacker down so that he stops hitting the woman.
The Observatory against homophobia has already made itself available to the victim. It has also registered the incident and activated the protocols that must be carried out so that attacks like the one that occurred yesterday do not go unpunished.
As reported by the Mossos d'Esquadra through social networks, the Catalan police have opened an investigation to clarify the events regretted this Saturday in the Barcelona metro.
Since January 1, 2023, there have been 55 LGTBI-phobic situations in Barcelona, according to data from the Barcelona City Council Observatory against Homophobia.
Insults, humiliation, discriminatory attitudes, harassment, threats, physical aggression, psychological violence or cyberbullying are forms of LGTBI-phobia that must be eradicated. You will find more information in the LGTBI-phobia detection guide.
Preventing and acting against this type of discrimination is essential to guarantee the rights and freedoms of LGTBI people.
