Violence and harassment in Spain
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Huelva: racist murderer sentenced to 32 years
The trial of four men and one minor for the murder in Huelva (Andalucia) of a Moroccan national and attempted murder of two others on 17 April 2003 has ended.
4 December 2004 (149 words)
Violence against Chinese footwear businesses in Elche
On 16 September local anger against the competition of Chinese shoe businesses broke into violence in the Elche area of Alicante.
23 November 2004 (265 words)
Neo-Nazis beat up the homeless
Two soldiers, who are members of the Social Republican Movement, which puts on neo-Nazi gigs, have been arrested for beating up and stabbing a homeless man in Madrid in August.
26 August 2004 (78 words)
Brutal beating of Algerian in Madrid
Six youths brutally beat an Algerian, Karin T.(37) in Human Rights Street, Madrid, close to the M-30 mosque.
7 June 2004 (87 words)
Santa Coloma: man shot dead by police
On 23 June, around 150 Moroccan immigrants gathered in the central square of Santa Coloma de Gramenet to protest at the death on 17 June of Farid Bendaoued, who was shot by a police officer from the Catalan force during a drugs raid on a house.
2 June 2004 (175 words)
Derisory fine for mosque arson attack
A councillor from Cervera and member of the Platform for Catalonia was fined a mere e25 for having attempted to burn down the mosque in the capital of Segarra in March 2002.
19 May 2004 (139 words)
Skinhead violence across Spain causes concern
Reports of serious violence during racial attacks or gang fights from across the country, suggest that levels of racial harassment linked to the far-Right skinhead scene since December have been extremely high.
4 April 2004 (370 words)
Amar Amhamdi murder was racially motivated
The public prosecutor has modified his finding about a murder of a Moroccan man near Barcelona in July 2000; it was racially motivated.
25 February 2004 (254 words)
Baeza: gang fight prompts xenophobia
Following a gang fight outside a disco in Jienense, Baeza, a young Spanish man died after being stabbed by a Moroccan youth.
29 January 2004 (107 words)
Court rules no racist motive in murder of Wilson Pacheco
A security guard, who had later attempted suicide, and two other men, have been found guilty of the murder of Ecuadorian Wilson Pacheco in January 2002.
29 October 2003 (349 words)
El Ejido: three years on
Moroccan jailed for murder that triggered riots
22 October 2003 (322 words)
Gran Canaria: gang attack leads to death of Moroccan
Three Spaniards have been arrested for the killing of Mustafa Azizi, a 32-year-old Moroccan man in Vecindario in September 2003.
16 September 2003 (147 words)
Mosque petrol bombed in Girona
The Mossos d'Esquadra (autonomous police force of Catalonia) and local police officers arrested a man for throwing a petrol bomb at the mosque near the station after making derogatory remarks about the Muslim community in a local bar.
4 September 2003 (80 words)
Spaniards claim no racist intent for murder of Algerians
Despite the fact that a racist motive for the killing of two Algerians - Ali Sisaou and Abbas Naimi - in October 2001 in Russafa de Valencia, was ruled out by the presiding judge, a severe sentence of 25 years in jail was imposed on Richard PM because of the superior strength, the weapons he was carrying, the drunkenness of the victims and the presence of other harassers. Three other accused men were found not guilty of the murders.
16 August 2003 (217 words)
Two cases of police sexual abuse of immigrants
Seville: police officer jailed for sexually humiliating Colombian
11 June 2003 (351 words)
Andalusia: Moroccan migrant worker beaten to death
In April, a 60-year-old immigrant worker was killed in the Huelva region of Andalusia - one of Europe's biggest strawberry producing regions - during an attack in which two other immigrants were hospitalised.
31 May 2003 (465 words)
Catalonia: more serious racist violence
Terassa: neo-Nazi gang attack leaves immigrants in fear
30 May 2003 (611 words)
Murcia: trial of guards accused of killing African prisoner
In April, four prison guards and the chief of the Murcia provincial prison stood trial for aggravated homicide and abuse of authority, following the death, in December 2000, of Mohamed Ibrahim Yandani, a 28-year-old Ghanaian detainee.
30 April 2003 (293 words)
Canary Islands: Moroccan youth killed in suspected racist attack
In April, three local youths were arrested following the stabbing to death of Soufian Essaghir, a 19-year-old Moroccan youth, in the Las Palmas village of Vecindario.
30 April 2003 (185 words)
Aragón: city council fails race victim
The compensation claim of the Pakistani immigrant worker Mohammad Rehman, has not been honoured five years after his work mates at a shipyard in Escucha tied him to a post and lit a fire around him leaving him with severe burns (see European Race Bulletin no.
11 April 2003 (134 words)
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