A 23-year-old young man was attacked by around 15 people last Sunday (1st) on Rua Herculano de Freitas, Bela Vista neighborhood, central São Paulo. He says the violence was motivated by homophobia.
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"When I went to turn the corner, there was already this group, there were about 10, 15 people. They were already hitting me, they didn't announce a robbery or anything. They hit me on the head with a skateboard", he revealed to R7. The friend who accompanied him and witnessed the scene did not suffer violence, as the attackers said no that they "wanted nothing to do with her".
The young man says he only stopped being kicked after he started biting one of the attackers and when another friend appeared and tried to throw a concrete block at them.
During the attack, he had his cell phone stolen, but he says that this was not the motivation for the attacks. "Their intention was not to rob me, but as they saw the cell phone, they took it," he says.
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Upon finding a police car, the young man claims that there was negligence regarding the attack. "They asked what happened. I was bleeding a lot and I pulled over to the police car and the police officer simply said that I shouldn't pull over because I was getting blood on the car."
The victim, who was taken to the hospital by his friends and received stitches to his head, filed a police report at the 48 Federal District.
