Spain: Anatomy of a Hate Crime

A few nights ago in Barcelona, a 19-year-old migrant from North Africa approached a woman on the street and asked her about her religion. When the woman replied that she was a Christian, the man reportedly started yelling that she was a “Christian whore” before assaulting her. Needless to say, the young man is now charged with assault and a hate crime to boot.

In the below article, the perp is described as “Maghrebian“. That refers to Arabs from North Africa, for example, Algeria, Tunisia, or Morocco. Given what is going on in Spain and the rest of Western Europe, this is hardly surprising.

To borrow a Spanish term, it takes a special kind of cojones to go to another country, where the predominant religion is different from yours, and proceed to insult locals for their religion while physically attacking them. And yet, millions of Muslims in Europe wonder why they are not popular.

Meanwhile, under Spain’s feckless government, they are now legalizing the status of tens of thousands of young men like this.

The below article from La Gaceta is translated by Fousesquawk.

The victim suffered  minor injuries

North African immigrant who attacked a woman in Barcelona yelling, “Christian whore”
 arrested for hate crime 


A young man of North African origin was arrested and accused of a hate crime and (injurious) assault after an attack that took place in the early morning in Barcelona, police sources confirmed. 

The incident, reported by ElCaso.cat., occurred around 2 am on La Rambla (major street in Barcelona), where the arrestee (19) approached a woman who was walking in the area and struck up a short conversation. According to information gathered, the individual asked what her religion was, and, after receiving a response that she was Christian, he reacted violently, hurling religious insults at her before attacking her. 

As a consequence of the attack, the victim suffered minor injuries and had to be treated at the scene by paramedics; her condition was not serious. Shortly after the incidents, agents of the Guardia Urbana succeeded in locating the alleged perpetrator and arrested him nearby.

The investigation was initially taken over by specialized Catalan police intelligence units in order to rule out any possible connections to radicalization. However, after the initial investigation, this hypothesis was ruled out, and the case was passed to the police investigative unit  

The arrestee was placed under judicial disposition as the alleged person responsible for violating (the victim’s) fundamental rights for religious motivation, along with the crime of (injurious) assault. For now, no details have been released as to whether the (suspect) has prior offenses or the exact circumstances that motivated the attack.