Overview

• Two local men have been charged with a hate crime, three counts of assault and one count of property damage after attacking a 61-year-old woman and her son.
• Security camera footage confirmed the suspects doused the victims’ faces with bleach in one incident that injured the woman’s eye.
• In separate night-time episodes the accused threw glass bottles into the family’s home and at one of the victims in the street.
• A judge issued restraining orders barring the defendants from approaching the victims or their residence following their court appearance.
• Reported aporophobia offenses rose by a third in 2024 and can carry one to four years in prison under Spain’s hate-crime statute.