New beating of the young man who denounced his mother for homophobic attacks

"I was woken up by shouts of 'faggot', so I decided not to leave the house," explains the 18-year-old. However, later, the Town Hall called him to collect some papers. It was then that his mother's brother asked him if he was going to withdraw the complaint against her. "When I answered no, he punched me in the left side of the face and I started to bleed." The aggression did not stop there, since his partner gave him a "slap" that threw him to the ground, he declares.

"We are going to burn down your grandmother's house and you are going to get out of there in a pine box," snapped the woman, who also attacked her mother-in-law by pulling her hair, according to the testimony of her young man.

Raúl then observed how his uncle "took a knife out of her pocket" and warned him that she was going to "stick it." Fortunately, at that moment the Local Police arrived and put an end to the beating. "They didn't do anything, they asked for my ID and they didn't even arrest my uncle, even though I told them he was carrying a knife," he says.

The next thing Raúl did was go to the doctor to have the wounds caused by the fight treated. "My gums exploded," he says. The hours that followed he spent with his grandmother at the Fortuna Civil Guard barracks, where he reported what had happened to him.

“I have asked for a restraining order because I am afraid to go out on the street, I can no longer even leave the house,” laments Raúl.

The young man comments that he had never had problems with his uncle and assures that it is his mother who is behind this new aggression: "She warmed his head."

Threats fulfilled

Raúl's lawyer, José Manuel Hernández, considers that his client has been the object of a crime of injury and also of a crime of threats and coercion.

"Let us remember that in the complaints filed previously, he received threats from his mother's partner." Specifically, Raúl's stepfather told him that if he filed the complaint he could be "deemed dead," the young man declared at the time. "Not only is he receiving threats, but they are also fulfilling them, presumably of course," the lawyer emphasizes.

The claim of the defense is to add the event that occurred yesterday to the procedure already opened and that, in accordance with these facts, restraining orders can be adopted as a protection measure.

Raúl intends to get in touch with the No Te Prives group in Murcia so that they can give him support after the serious homophobic incidents he has suffered. «They have thrown me out like a dog, without clothes and without money», the young man remarked to this Newsroom two weeks ago, while assuring that he does not have «even to recharge the phone», since his mother and his stepfather «they have kept all my savings, and I have been working since I was 15 years old».