The National Police have arrested four neo-Nazis for aggressively attacking two people in Valladolid on September 21st. The individuals, linked to extreme right-wing movements, assaulted two people with left-wing aesthetics. One of the victims was severely injured, suffering broken collarbones, arm, and jaw, requiring surgical intervention after being kicked and punched unconscious on the ground. The police are investigating the incident as a hate crime and have not ruled out more arrests, as there were two other individuals involved in the attack. This event adds to recent cases of hate crimes based on ideological or gender motivations in Valladolid, such as another beating in a bar of a man wearing an anti-fascist t-shirt or a young woman who was punched and called a "f***ing lesbian".
The National Police reported a double arrest "for an attack motivated by a hate crime", resulting in an arrest for a suspected serious assault "with the aggravating factor of ideological discrimination". The victims reported that they were "attacked due to their appearance and supposed ideology". The two suspects accused of the assault have ties to extreme right-wing movements and are being considered the perpetrators of the beating on the night of September 21st on Platerías Street, near a party area in Valladolid frequented by left-wing individuals. "The investigation indicates that the attack was simply motivated by the victims’ attire, typical of far-left groups," stated the police report, adding that the victims were returning from a concert when they were unexpectedly attacked by a group of four young people who, without saying a word, "began to assault them with punches and kicks, leaving one victim unconscious on the ground".
Sources close to the victims suggest that the individual who was particularly injured "has a punk aesthetic" and received indiscriminate blows from the aggressors, who are also related to violent ultras groups of Real Valladolid. "The victims have stated that they were attacked due to their appearance and supposed ideology," the Police reported, not ruling out more arrests given that there were four individuals among the attackers and only two have been identified. This incident adds to two recent cases of hate crimes investigated in the city. The first, just before the September festivities in Valladolid, involved a young man wearing an anti-fascist t-shirt, accompanied by a friend, being beaten in a night bar and his friend being expelled along with the attackers, who also assaulted him outside. Both required hospitalization and five people related to the incident were arrested. A few days later, a young woman reported that a group of several unknown boys punched her, breaking her jaw, while yelling "f***ing lesbian" just because she had short hair.
