The President of the Spanish Government Pedro Sánchez convened an urgent meeting of a commission in charge of the arrangements to combat the hate crimes, After hooded attackers hitting a 20-year-old in Madrid and used a razor for record an insult to the glute.
Sanchez wants to “assume first-hand” leadership in the matter and will attend the meeting, spokeswoman Isabel Rodriguez said Tuesday after a cabinet meeting.
He said that “A fact of this nature … alarms us all as a society”.
In the attack on Sunday afternoon, the man was assaulted as he entered the building where he lives in a neighborhood of the capital.
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The attackers initially called him homophobic insults, They cut his mouth with a knife which they then used to record an insult to the glute, police sources quoted by Spanish news agencies EFE and Europa Press said.
Activist groups say the Attacks on people in the LGBTQ community are on the rise in Spain and announced protests for the coming days. Activists claim that in official statistics they capture barely a fraction of the problem because many incidents are not reported.
In July, a 24-year-old man died in an attack that sparked widespread convictions after a friend of the victim said he was beaten to death for being gay.
Police are investigating Sunday’s attack, which was condemned by the country’s political leaders. No arrests have been reported.