Overview
- The Ministry of Interior's 2025 report, presented June 3, 2026, records 2,417 hate incidents nationwide, a 23.6% rise that is the largest total since monitoring began in 2014.
- Racism and xenophobia remained the largest category with 934 incidents while islamophobia, hostility toward people with disabilities (disfobia) and antisemitism grew fastest at 133%, 90% and 86.5% respectively.
- Online abuse rose sharply, with digital islamophobia jumping about 450% and the Observatorio Español del Racismo y la Xenofobia reporting that April social‑media posts tied to the migrant regularization were 85% discrediting, 55% portraying immigrants as a threat and 30% calling for expulsion.
- Law enforcement detained or investigated 1,018 people for hate offenses in 2025 and cleared 65.6% of cases, and authorities also recorded greater involvement of minors as both victims and perpetrators.
- Regional patterns vary: Galicia saw a 53% year‑on‑year rise to 118 incidents and a fivefold increase in ideologically motivated cases, highlighting how local politics and online discourse can concentrate hate incidents.