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[QatarChic]

I usually read el periodico online and came across this video today- shocking and disgusting. What amazes me, is the guy said he was drunk when this happened and 'doesn't remember what happened'- doesn't look so to me...is this kind of stuff getting to be more common now in Spain?..but what stood out for me, was the other passenger who just sat there and did nothing

http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=452174&idseccio_PK=1021

[Moore]

Another odd thing was that we was carrying on his phone conversation: horrific multi-tasking. At least they arrested the bloke in the end, but it really is quite depressing that the other passenger didn't help at all.

[QatarChic]

very depressing- I thought Sergei was released on police bail and the most he could get was 15 days?[/b]

[john_n_carolina]

...that's awful....just for being (or seeming) like an Ecuadorian. i hope that's an isolated incident and he spends a few years in the worst part of the Spanish prison. there he can practice his kickboxing all he wants.

[john_n_carolina]

Ecuador takes on 'racist attack'

Ecuador's foreign minister is to take charge of the legal case of an Ecuadorean teenager who was the victim of an apparent racist attack in Spain.
Maria Fernanda Espinosa said she would travel to Barcelona to meet the 16-year-old girl, who was repeatedly hit and kicked by a man on a train.

The attack in Barcelona, which has provoked widespread indignation, was captured on film by security cameras.

A local man, aged 21, was charged with racially aggravated assault.

Identified only as Sergi Xavier MM, he was released pending further proceedings, a court statement said.

'Vile act'

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said that the government would pay the teenager's legal fees.

Ecuador's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had sent a diplomatic note to the Spanish embassy in Quito in which the government expressed its "most energetic protest for this xenophobic act", which happened on 7 October.

Spain's foreign minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, described the attack as "vile and intolerable", and said it would not go unpunished.

The girl's mother, who asked not to be identified, told Radio Quito she was extremely worried about her daughter.

"Now I don't feel safe when she's alone, when she has to go to school," she said, according to the Associated Press news agency.

[QatarChic]

Well, the update is that the girl gave evidence today and just a short time ago the guy who assaulted her went in to tell his side of the story.... based on that they will decide whether to rearrest sergio or not........apparently the other guy in the video (Argentine) who sat and did nothing was complaining to police today that he feels intimidated by his neighbours who have been giving him a hard time for not intervening- they do have a point, why didn't he do anything?

[john_n_carolina]

...about not intervening: the beginning stuff probably you see quite often, i used to see it on the NY Subway. then the kick and hit didn't really come until the very end and came real fast and then the guy was gone.

also, i think this Sergei guy is pretty big, compared to this little Argentine guy. i could probably see his point.

for me, it would be like in the 80's in the crack-rap era riding the subway in NY. would i have stood up to a 6'5" white / colored man that started this?? probably not. you could have been stabbed, shot, etc.

in fact, isn't the most notorious case of the white suburban guy that DID go into defense in NY, very similar?? ill try and find the links, he went into to defense and started stabbing the perpetrators and 1 or 2 died...

[wildchild]

it's also quite obvious that the boy didn't even see the kick. and as he was wearing headphones, he probably didn't hear much either.

[QatarChic]

was he wearing headphones?

[john_n_carolina]

yes, i think he was. actually, the girl didn't even see the kick coming if you look closely at it. he kind of did a swing around the post kick from behind, then hit her in the face. all within 5-6 seconds. i probably would have followed the guy off the subway though, if i had a cell phone. but, also my first inclination would be to medically check on the girl. she could have a broken nose, etc. i think the Argentine boy did see the first stuff though. i mean, this guy is pretty big, and he spit on her too??