"A racist attack nearly left me without an eye," actor Marius Makon posted on Twitter. "Racism will never defeat us, love, love and love."
Makon, who was born in Cameroon and is also known as Elton Prince, was referring to a Saturday assault in Madrid that left him bruised and bloodied.
According to a Facebook post by Makon, the actor and his friends had stepped up to order coffee early Saturday when a couple approached him.
"I don't want black people in this place or in front of me," the woman, 33, reportedly said. Makon wrote that he tried to de-escalate the situation, telling her, "I will only be here for a moment and then I'm leaving. I don't have any interest in staying near you for long."
The woman then reportedly called him a "black piece of s---." When he asked her to calm down, he wrote, she began attacking him with a glass bottle. She hit him twice on the head, Makon said, causing a cut and other injuries that required seven stitches.
"I'm white," she allegedly said. "I can kill you and nothing will happen."
The owners of the restaurant intervened and called police. When authorities arrived, they briefly detained the woman but released her after she gave a statement. The Spanish Immigration and Refugee Support Network has urged Madrid prosecutors to investigate the incident as a hate crime.
About 1 million people of African origin live in Spain, and many say racism is a near-daily reality. In interviews conducted by the Spanish newspaper El Pais, members of the black community in Spain reported being told such things as "Go back to your … country," "I don't rent apartments to people like you," "If you shower, do you lose your color?" and "Your cousins are monkeys."
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Disgusting that she felt she could say such a thing and that the cops didn't arrest her for assault/racism.
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Does anywhere say if the woman is now a Spanish citizen or just travelling?
Soon after, the woman, 33 years old and a national of El Salvador, was arrested. After taking the statement from the agents, it will go to court in the next few hours, a spokeswoman for the Police Headquarters of Madrid has detailed to Europa Press.
Once the facts are known, the Spanish Network of Immigration and Refugee Aid has filed a complaint with the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Madrid as well as with the special hate crimes as a result of the acts committed against the actor.
They say that in addition to hurting and insulting him in a racist manner, the alleged aggressor "acted at all times seeking provocation and reaction on the part of the assaulted, who did not present any reaction."
The Network has asked the Office of the Prosecutor to proceed with the imputation of the crimes of injuries with the highly qualified aggravation contained in article 22.4 of the Criminal Code as well as the crimes of Threats (articles 169 and 170) together with the specific offense of hate contained in Article 510 of the Criminal Code, considering that both the threats and the previous statements issued by the alleged aggressor, who stated that he did not want to see "blacks in the premises" and "other assertions and death threats are evidence of as the injury was an instrumental element to attack the actor because of his condition of Afro-descendant ".
In addition, the Spanish Immigration Network considers that this act requires an "immediate" institutional condemnation, for which it has urged the Municipality of Móstoles as well as the Government of Cristina Cifuentes "to adopt an immediate position and to appear in the cause as well as they show their condemnation for what happened. "
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