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Spanish Police Probe Possible Hate Crime After Vigo Restaurateur Expels Israeli Tourists

Google has erased a wave of fraudulent reviews to restore the restaurant’s rating after its expulsion video went viral

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El hostelero que echó el martes a un grupo de turistas de su restaurante acudió este jueves a denunciar los hechos ante la Policía Nacional

Overview

  • The Policía Local de Vigo drafted a hate-crime report following a Madrid resident’s tip and handed it to the Policía Nacional, which is now investigating the incident under racial-crime statutes.
  • Google removed numerous inauthentic negative reviews that had driven Mimassa’s score down to 3.9 and reinstated its original 4.7-out-of-5 rating.
  • Restaurateur Samir Slim has reopened two of his three Vigo venues and left one closed in a gesture of mourning for Gaza victims.
  • The viral footage was initially misattributed to Málaga before being confirmed to have occurred at Slim’s Mimassa terrace in Vigo.
  • The case highlights how the Gaza conflict is spilling over into local business disputes and testing digital reputation management in politically charged environments.