They denounce homophobic assault on six young people in Bogotá: “They shot to kill”

Another incident of violence against the LGBTQI+ community occurred in the early hours of Saturday, April 9, when two subjects assaulted with stones, sticks and daggers, a couple of men waiting for a taxi in front of the Vive Astor Plaza theater, located in the town of Chapinero, in Bogotá.

The incident was recorded and narrated by Mayra Corredor, who was in that same place waiting for another vehicle to transport with her friends, when “out of nowhere two unknown guys arrive to hit them”.

After the first two strokes, Mayra and her friends start yelling at the aggressors to leave them alone and that's when they became their target.

“What I remember from then on is fuzzy, I guess because of the adrenaline rush of the moment (...) The fact is that we managed to knock one down and take away a knife he had; while the other, out of nowhere, gets a stick ready for everything,” he said.

In the midst of the beating, the security guard of a residential building was present to defend the victims, after which the attackers were badly beaten. However, this was not enough to calm them down, and on the contrary, a bigger problem broke out.

Fortunately for the people attacked, the residents of the place heard their cries and went out to defend them with sticks, while the violent ones fled.

As evidenced by a video that the young witness added to her publication, the security guard calls the police and asks them to be present at the scene, but they never arrived.

Mayra Corredor concluded her story with a reflection in which she questioned what could have happened if she and her friends did not intervene in the aggression against the homosexual couple, because although they were also beaten, they warn that they could not be indifferent.

This fact, on which the authorities have not yet spoken, occurs amid a recent wave of violence against the LGBTQI+ community, which has left several fatalities.

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