The Civil Guard has arrested two men for the alleged commission in one by, committed against two people in vulnerability in (Madrid), a town of 7,700 inhabitants 41 kilometers from the capital for the A-2. The victims are a woman in about 80 years and her son.
The agents received a notice of a fire in a house in the municipality that, according to this mother and her son, had been caused by third parties. In addition, the inhabitants of the house indicated to the agents that were some time suffering acts of harassment and harassment.
After the investigations carried out, the agents were able to confirm an episode that occurred at night in which, from the outside of the victims’ house, two individuals sprayed them with the face, which married injuries to one of them in one eye. It was also found that the alleged authors launched through the windows, which has no crystals, glass bottles both inside the house and against one of the people in the middle of the street to assault them.
The stalkers did not get into the house, which is in conditions of extreme poverty, with cartons in the windows, but threw the objects inside and, later, caused fire abroad.
In news Telecinco, the woman victim of the aggression, who the chain identifies with the name of Carmen,: “I threw bleach in the eyes. I am very afraid.” The woman has assured that the aggressors tried to burn her house with her: “They put fire in the windows and at the door and everything was burning.” In the same space, some neighbors who helped and defended Carmen Already their son of aggression have denounced the “lynching” and the “attack” against the victims: “they were attacked for being different and having their disability.”
The Civil Guard explains in its note that “it was possible to identify and detain the alleged authors, residents of the town, who were causing the continuous suffering of the two victims.” These are two men, who have been arrested for a crime of hate for aporophobia, three crimes of injury and another of damage to the house. The Armed Institute does not detail its nationality or age or if they have a history of this or other crimes.
After being brought to court, a restraining order of both the house and its inhabitants has been decreed. The investigation has been carried out by the Judicial Police team of the Civil Guard of Arganda del Rey.
The aporophobia, a term coined by the philosopher Adela Cortina, is the hatred, fear or rejection of people in poverty or homeless. Aporophobia can be considered a crime of hatred when, for example, physical aggressions occur to homeless people for the simple fact of being. It is punished with prison sentences from one to four years and fines of 6 to 12 months.
47% of homeless people in Spain have suffered hate crimes and 87% of these aggressions are not denounced. Crimes for aporophobia, according to figures from the Ministry of Interior. For the European Network for the Fight Against Poverty and Social Exclusion in the Spanish State (EAPN-ES), these figures warn about the impact of discrimination widely unknown by the whole citizenship, which hinders its eradication.
