Overview

• The Asociación de Personas con Acondroplasia y Otras Displasias Esqueléticas con Enanismo (ADEE) announced it is studying legal action against Lamine Yamal over the alleged hiring of persons with dwarfism as party entertainers.
• The Ministry of Social Rights has asked the Fiscalía, the Office for Hate Crimes and the Defensor del Pueblo to investigate whether the celebration violated Spain’s disability law.
• Spain’s General Disability Rights Law explicitly bans recreational activities that mock or ridicule persons with disabilities by using their condition for public amusement.
• The draft reform of the disability and dependency laws would elevate such breaches to very serious infractions and impose administrative fines ranging from €600,000 to €1 million.
• Yamal shared fragments of his birthday celebration in a social media video but has not provided any verbal response to the allegations.