Hostility, rejection or hatred towards foreigners or people perceived as such. It is an ethnocentric bias towards culture, values and traditions from abroad and it is showed from rejection, contempt and threats, segregation, disenfranchisement to major forms as assaults and murders.
A Police Investigation tries to clarify the alleged murder of a 20-year-old black young man from Ecuador, who was killed by other young man of 19 in Vallecas (Madrid). The Forensic Report noted “an occipital bruise with bleeding”. A 19-year-old young and tall man was arrested. According friends, he was…
Giovanni Musat, a 33-year-old man from Suati Alonita (Romania) and Steel Fixer worker, was killed by a kick to the head that caused him a blood clot in the brain, according to autopsy report. His neck struck the paving stones of “La Cabrera” Square (Madrid). A man about 25 years…
This 40-year-old Algerian man was attacked by several people who have cried “racist and xenophobic” shouts against him according witnesses. A month later, police arrested 5 people allegedly involved in this incident, three of them age minors.
A farm and construction worker of Moroccan origin and member of the SOC-Sindicato de Obreros del Campo (Field Workers Trade Union) who died as a result of multiple stab injuries. Although the police tried to relate the case to drug traffic, the relatives of the victim always denied such accusation…
A group of young men jumped into a Skating Rink installed at Cervantes Sq. in Alcala de Henares (Madrid) at 7 a.m. when the premises were closed. The guard, Ioan Grancea, a 28-year-old Romanian citizen, tried to dissuade them not to do so. The alleged perpetrator of Grancea’s dead, who…
A 30-year-old Moroccan young man was walking with his girlfriend when he was lashed by a group of Spanish boys. The victim reproach their attitude, being surrounded and brutally assaulted by them. Four minors were arrested in connection with the facts. One was released and the Prosecution asked the precautionary…
A 21-year-old Moroccan man and a friend were assaulted by three Spanish men after they left a nightclub. Sadiki’s friend managed to escape and when he came back to the scene, he found Sadiki unconscious on the ground. Sadiki had been severely beaten on the head and died hours later.…
Soufian Essagir, a young Moroccan man, died after being stabbed in the back with a knife of 12 cm length after a fight . Besides the stab received, the relatives of the assailant punched and kicked him, causing severe bruises on the head and face. Soufian Essaghir died after he…
Abdesdek Ben Sfia, 27 years old and Boubker Echarraka, were sleeping at the bus station in Huelva. They had came from Almeria to work in the strawberry season. Close to them was lying Zoubir Mohamed, a 60-year-old Moroccan citizen who they both had met hours before and whom had sympathized…
Four young men, two of them underaged, allegedly killed a 42-year-old homeless person from Bulgaria. The young men allegedly attacked him with some bats they had just pulled out from a park bench. They beat him with several blows on the head, although the body of the victim, who only…
