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Racist attacks in El Ejido

01 May 2004

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On 1 June 2004, two Moroccan migrants were on the receiving end of a racist attack during which they were brutally beaten for half an hour by a group of youths in El Ejido, as they returned to their house, near the greenhouse where they work. They were both taken to hospital, one of them with a broken femur, and the other with a substantial haemorrhage in his eye.

However, the situation is still more serious when a complaint made by several social and trade union organisations, filed before the Andalusian Defensor del Pueblo (Ombudsman) and the United Nations rapporteur is taken into account. According to this complaint, which was filed in May 2004, institutional racism is exercised by the town council and it is translated by the local police into violent and systematic racist attacks.

In a plenary meeting the municipal council of El Ejido agreed unanimously to ask the Justice ministry for a pardon for two local men who were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for kidnapping and beating three Moroccans with baseball bats in 1997. Their decision was preceded by the collection of 50,000 signatures from local residents supporting the pardon.

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