21-year-old Kevin Rubio has lived in Spain for fourteen years, he is a nursing assistant and was attacked by three unknown men in a bar in the city of Oviedo.
The young Kevin Rubio, a Colombian who has lived in Spain for fourteen years, told EFE on Monday his determination to “Not be tolerant of intolerant people”, although he admitted feeling a “bit of uncertainty” for being recognized after denouncing a homophobic aggression suffered last Friday in the Spanish city of Oviedo (north).
“My face appears in the media and now I am quite recognized, so both for better and for worse it scares a little, but I’m not going to back down”, indicated the victim, attacked in a bar by three strangers who beat her several times, causing head and neck injuries for which he had to go to a hospital.
Born in Medellín (Colombia) in 2000, he has lived for fourteen years in Asturias, the region of which Oviedo is the capital, where She works as a nursing assistant while studying.
“Everything happened very fast, and it was quite aggressive because I was not doing anything, just having fun with several co-workers, when I started getting pushed and then they said ‘you shitty fag’, they pushed me and they started hitting me.”
Rubio added that her teammates reacted “very quickly.” “We left the premises and a girl, who I do not know, he covered my wounds with his sweatshirt, because I was desangrando literally, and after a while the ambulance arrived and took me to the hospital, where I spent thirteen hours, “he explained.
According to the young man, the most affected area is the ear, with “quite a lot of hearing loss”, from which he hopes to recover, in addition to various points on the head and neck.
The victim was surprised by the repercussion that the attack has generated, which she hopes will serve to “Open people’s eyes and make them aware that it is a latent problem, before which they cannot take a step back”.
About, advocated that in schools “Do not hide and teach that there is diversity”, since without this awareness work things “will remain the same.”
“It has been something hard,” he recalled, because although he was aware that previously there had been attacks of this type “You never imagine that it’s going to touch you, you can’t believe it.”
A young man has denounced on his social networks a homophobic aggression in Oviedo, for which he had to go to the hospital.
Hate speech is responsible for hate crimes.
My full support and solidarity and my emphatic condemnation for the aggression. Asturias should say ENOUGH.– ???? Adrián Barbón ???????? (@AdrianBarbon) December 5, 2021
The Prosecutor’s Office has warned of the seriousness of hate crimes in Spain, mainly against the sexual orientation and racism.
According to official data, reported hate crimes increased in Spain by 9.3 percent in the first half of the year, up to 610, with respect to the same period in 2019, the year before the pandemic.
Although a study by the National Office for the Fight against Hate Crimes reveals that the vast majority of victims, around 89 percent, does not report. (I)
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