Whistles at Egypt's anthem, chants of “Muslim who doesn’t jump!”, insults to Pedro Sánchez and the essential “Spanish Gibraltar!”. What is this if not Torrente going to Cornellà-El Prat yesterday to cheer on the Spanish team?Bring, bring the Spanish team to Catalonia, so that all the Vox voters come out to make racist chants.Racist and stupid. Because, as an Ara reader says today in their comments, “you have to be an idiot to go to see a match of your team, start shouting racist cries and chants, and end up insulting the best player on your own team.” Because, of course, these patriots have forgotten that if there is a player who can decisively contribute to Spain winning the World Cup again one day, it is a player named Lamine Yamal and he is Muslim. Not to mention whistling the Barça goalkeeper and former Espanyol player Joan Garcia on his debut for the national team. And they were not minority chants. At the end of the match, when asked about racism and xenophobia, the coach Luis de la Fuente (the one who applauded Rubiales on the day of “I am not going to resign”) replied that these people, “the further away from society, the better.” Impossible for them to be far away, they are society. They are a fraction of society that has a voice and a vote (Vox in Spain) which is a vote that is very much in line with their voice.

A gay couple of Vilanova i la Geltrú was forced to endure repeated cries of "faggot" and threats like "I'll slit your throats", as a neighbour constantly harassed them between April and June 2018. The agressor even threw stones at one of the men. Luckily, he missed. He also threw stones against the windows of their house and tore out their light fuses. Now a court has sentenced the homophobic aggressor to three years in prison. The sentence also prohibits him from approaching the victims for two years and requires him to compensate the victimes with €4,000,

National Police have arrested a total of six people in connection with the murder of Samuel, the 24-year-old boy who was beaten to death last Saturday outside a club in A Coruña, Galicia. The case has highlighted the escalation of aggressions against the LGTBI community in recent weeks. This Friday the court investigating the case has decreed the imprisonment of three of them. They are three men - friends with each other but not related to the victim - who were arrested between Monday and last Wednesday. The court links them to the fatal beating and one of them is also responsible for having stolen the victim's mobile phone.

New multiple homophobic aggression in Barcelona. A dozen boys assaulted, insulted and robbed a 52-year-old man on Saturday at dawn in a gazebo in Parc Güell. The Policia de la Generalitat de Catalunya have confirmed to ARA that the victim, who was slightly injured and the next day announced the facts, described the attackers as "young people between 20 and 25 years". According to the complaint, the group assaulted him with punches and shoved him, insulted him because of his sexuality and stole his wallet containing cash and credit cards. For the moment the police have not yet identified or located the perpetrators.

Two serious aggressions during the night of Sant Juan in Barcelona. On the one hand, the Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a man in Esplugues de Llobregat as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of sexual assault on a woman. The Mossos had received the notice at 4.40 am on Thursday for some events that would have occurred on public roads. The man had been arrested shortly before 5 am.

Aggressions of any kind against LGTBI people can be reported through a few channels. One of them is through the Observatory Against Homophobia (OCL_H), an entity increasingly concerned about a scourge that far from being eradicated, continues to grow. In 2019 the Observatory recorded 160 incidences, in 2020 there were already 189, 18% more, according to the report State of LGTBI-phobia in Catalonia 2020 presented on Monday at the College of Journalists. The event was attended, among others, by representatives of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Barcelona City Council and the Síndic de Greuges. Since January 1st, 2021, 90 have been registered.

Two gay male couples suffered a homophobic attack on Saturday night on the beach of Somorrostro in Barcelona. The multiple aggression was around 10 p.m. and the Mossos d'Esquadra have already opened an investigation after receiving the complaint, but have not yet found those responsible for the attack and have not been able to make arrests. As advanced by the digital magazine Tot Barcelona, the victims were talking quietly with other friends on the beach when a group of "very violent" young men burst in, spat at them, insulted them with phrases such as "fucking faggots" and threatened them.