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Spain: Members of the military arrested for attacking vagrants

01 August 2004

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On the night of 18 August, two members of the Spanish armed forces were arrested for attacking two homeless people as they got ready to sleep in the street in the Moncloa neighbourhood in Madrid. They were insulted by a woman, while they were lying down in front of a block of houses, before the three men she was with began assaulting them with a shower of blows. When one of the victims managed to get up, he was stabbed in the stomach with a 10-centimetre pointed knife by one of the assailants, two of whom belonged to the Spanish armed forces, one in the Royal Guard and the other in the Brigada de Intervención Rápida (Rapid Intervention Unit). The member of the Royal Guard was suspected of being responsible for the stabbing. A young woman who was with the assailants told police that the group had set out to "hunt" homeless people, many of whom live in Moncloa. She said that she got involved to prevent the group she was with, which included her boyfriend, from getting angry with her. The assailants were in possession of fascist paraphernalia, and admitted to having attended concerts organised by a Spanish neo-nazi group, the Movimiento Social Republicano.

El País 21.8.04

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