An investigation has been opened in Corsica after a “homophobic aggression” in the municipality of Rogliano (Haute-Corse).
Bringing his “total support to the two victims” of this “violent homophobic aggression”, on Twitter, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin affirmed that “these infamous acts must not go unpunished”.
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This investigation, which targets violence committed during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, in the heart of Cap Corse, was opened for “voluntary violence with total interruption of work less than or equal to 8 days, in meetings and due to orientation sexual victims, ”says the prosecution.
Kicks and punches
According to the public prosecutor of Bastia, a couple of men suffered homophobic insults then violence “with kicks and punches on the part of several individuals, causing them total interruptions of work of six to eight days”.
“Literally the whole bar chasing us because we are ‘PD’ when we had not even kissed,” said one of them on social networks. “I didn’t even understand what was going on, never seen it, a hatred that I had only encountered in films or books, there it was in real life.”
“When we passed in front of the bar where we were assaulted, in the ambulance we could hear people calling us DP without any remorse,” he continues.
The victims, two vacationers including one of them is Benoît David, singer of the group Grand Blanc and from Metz, attended, in the company of three other people, a fireworks display in this town popular with tourists. They were reportedly the target of violence shortly after midnight, after spending the evening in a bar. A third person was also injured.
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Posted on social networks, the photo of the couple, with swollen faces, aroused many reactions of support on the island.
François Ravier, prefect of Haute-Corse, expressed his “outrage” and condemned “with the utmost firmness this cowardly and violent aggression”, addressing “all his support to the victims and their loved ones”.
Patrice Quilici, the mayor of Rogliano, declared himself “scandalized” by this violence. The Human Rights League, for its part, condemned “the violent attack suffered by homosexual people”, denouncing “a real lynching which cannot go unpunished”.
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