Country Catalunya, Spain
Year 2022
Affected group/minority Jafet Pinedo, Catalan-speakers
Perpetrator National Police
Type of case Hate act
Type of act Detention of a person
Media: Physical interaction
Reactions: Platform for Language has provided legal assistance to the victim
Brief description:
When a home delivery driver was cycling through Elx (Valencia), he was forced to overtake two cars occupying the bike lane. He reprimanded the drivers for their attitude, ironically saying, "You're in the right place!".
A few meters further, he was stopped by one of the vehicles, from which two men identified as national police officers got out. The rider, not having an ID on him, was arrested and taken, with insults, to the National Police station. There, the agents denounced him for refusing to identify himself by not bringing the documentation - despite verbally communicating his ID number -"laughing at the agents" and "speaking in Valencian when the agents were asking him to speak in Spanish".
The Platform for Language has provided legal assistance to the victim, Jafet Pinedo, who denounced the officers for abuse of power, wrongful arrest, verbal assaults and false accusation. The NGO has also requested an interview with the deputy delegate of the central government in Alicante, M. Araceli Poblador, to ask her to suspend the police fine against Pinedo, which continues the administrative process.
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