The complainant of the homophobic aggression confesses that the injuries were consented

There was no homophobic aggression in Malasaña last Sunday. The 20-year-old man of Spanish nationality who claimed that several hooded men had assaulted him in the center of Madrid to carve the word "faggot" on his buttock with a knife, retracted the first afternoon of this Wednesday before the Police. According to sources from the investigation revealed to this newspaper, the individual, who eventually engages in male prostitution, confessed to agents of the Provincial Information Brigade of the Central Police Station that the injuries were consensual during a practice of a sexual nature. with another man at the latter's home.

The young man admitted that he invented everything to try to keep his new partner, who was unaware that he engages in sex in exchange for money and to whom he could not reveal that it was a "client" who recorded the insult on his buttocks .

The complainant ended up collapsing before the officials who this Wednesday, for the third time, summoned him to take his statement in the face of the abundant contradictions in his version. The agents were already convinced that everything was an invention after verifying that none of the multitude of security and traffic cameras in the neighborhood had recorded the eight hooded men who, according to the young man, assaulted him at the door of the home of the.

No trace of the aggressors despite the fact that the area, very close to the well-known Plaza del 2 de Mayo and being restricted traffic, has up to seven image capture devices of the Madrid City Council active.

The young man, who is now facing a charge of simulation of a crime, had stated before the agents that he did not have serious problems with anyone and that he did not know his attackers. The assailants - he affirmed - jumped on him when he opened the portal of his house, they were wearing black hooded sweatshirts and masks or balaclavas that made it very difficult to identify him, as stated in the false complaint. A document in which the only truth is that the word fagot was engraved on it along with an inverted cross, as explained by those responsible for the operation.

The doubts of the officials intensified on Tuesday, when they finished reviewing all the recordings of the cameras available in Malasaña from hours before 5:15 p.m. (the moment in which the complainant located the false aggression) and the night. Neither did any witnesses see the 'band' despite the fact that hundreds of people flooded the terraces of the popular neighborhood of Malasaña at that time of a sunny Sunday afternoon.

Nor had any neighbor of the building, despite the fact that there were numerous people who entered and left at that time, had seen any of the alleged hooded men who, according to the complainant, were waiting for him inside the portal to, after yelling at him "faggot », «eating shit» and «disgusting», engraving the well-known insult on his buttock and cutting his lower lip with a razor.

Not even the owner of the store where the young man claimed to have been moments before the alleged attack remembered seeing him. The cameras also confirmed that he had not passed by that store at the time he said.

He also scolded the agents from the beginning about the fact that the young man, who he said could not even identify the assailants' accent, did not ask his neighbors for help or call the Police or Samur immediately after the attack. The 'attacked' until 10:30 p.m. did not appear at the Leganitos street police station. And he did it "forced" by his partner and a roommate, explained sources of the investigation, who revealed that at first the man refused to file a complaint, something that caused doubts to nest among the operatives from the very beginning of this case.

Those responsible for the Information Brigade from the beginning openly expressed their doubts to their superiors about the attack for another reason: the complainant could not provide the clothes he was wearing at the time of the alleged attack to try to recover the DNA of the aggressors because he said that he had washed it immediately.

Although the officials from the beginning of the investigation showed their precautions, especially because there was no record of the existence of an organized gang of these characteristics or a history of a similar homophobic attack in broad daylight in Madrid, this case from the beginning unleashed a avalanche of reactions, starting with that of Pedro Sánchez himself who condemned the “homophobic attack” from his Twitter and urgently summoned the Commission against hate crimes this Friday. The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, took advantage of this episode to denounce that it is "obvious" that the "sometimes vague public and political discourses" generate "a breeding ground" for "hate crimes". And numerous groups had called to demonstrate in the coming days as a result of this young man's complaint.