Protests in Spain against suspected LGBT hate crime

People took to the streets of Spain’s biggest cities on Monday evening to express their anger at the death of a man in a suspected homophobic attack at the weekend.

Crowds filled a central Madrid square and activists marched down a major street in Barcelona, chanting slogans and waving placards and rainbow-coloured flags.

The response to the wave of LGBT-phobic hatred that ended the life of Samuel in A Coruna is overwhelming, the left-wing Podemos party that governs in coalition with the ruling Socialists wrote on Twitter.

The 24-year-old nursing assistant was beaten near a nightclub in the early hours of Saturday in the town of A Coruna, northern Spain, by several assailants including one who shouted a common pejorative description of a homosexual, state broadcaster RTVE reported. He later died in hospital.

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