Adriana Costa, a woman of Venezuelan origin, has spoken on television about the xenophobic aggression she suffered a few days ago in Alicante. The images, which went viral on social networks, show how two women who were driving in the opposite direction react when they meet their victim.
“You come in the opposite direction,” Adriana scolded the women who had caused the traffic accident. The reaction of one of them is what triggers the accusations of xenophobia: “The police can come, I have made a mistake and that’s it, nothing happens, but you are Machu Picchu and you are Machu Picchu. And do you know what Are you, Machu Picchu? You are an indigenous woman, Machu Picchu,” the woman said insistently.
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“To much honor,” Adriana responded at that time, in disbelief of what she was experiencing. “You are shit. Your ancestors eat rice,” the woman kept saying, while the other occupant of the vehicle that caused the accident became increasingly aggressive. While the victim continued recording while waiting for the police, it is seen how she begins to hit her with her bag, as well as her vehicle.
Adriana: “They threw me, hit me and kicked me”
The woman has broken her silence before the cameras of Public mirrorfrom Antena 3, and On everyone’s lips, in four. After thanking the interest that her case has aroused, Adriana has recounted how the events happened.
“Before starting I want to apologize to you, because it makes me so embarrassed to see two idiots like you insult you in that way, that I want to apologize on behalf of everyone,” Nacho Abad started in the Cuatro program. “It started as a traffic crime, they were driving drunk, they collided head-on with my car, and when they got out of the vehicle they started,” Adriana said.
Adriana in ‘Espejo Público’ before the images of her aggression
The racist and xenophobic motivation of the attack became clear from the moment the women discovered the victim of the accident, as Costa has assured. “They said: I made a mistake, I don’t care. What hasn’t mattered to them is that whoever got out of the other vehicle was a person with Latino features,” she said.
Adriana: “I studied Journalism in Venezuela and the instinct to record came out”
It occurred to the assaulted woman to record what she was witnessing because of her profession, since she has assured that she is a journalist. “I have had the reflex to start recording just in case. I studied Journalism in Venezuela and this instinct that I had locked up in me came out: strange things happen here, and I am going to record in case something bad happens,” he told in the program On everyone’s lips.
“They have thrown me to the ground, they have bitten me, they have beaten me, they have kicked me,” he said about his aggression. The woman has ended up with “different cervical injuries, an ankle sprain, scrapes, bites, an edema on the back of the head.” He has also said that she managed to escape from her aggressors thanks to a friend who was with her. “Fortunately she was able to separate them from me at key moments, although they also caused her injuries,” Adriana concluded her story.
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