BARCELONA — People took to the streets of Spain’s biggest cities on Monday evening to express their anger at the death of a man in a suspected homophobic attack at the weekend.
Crowds filled a central Madrid square and activists marched down a major street in Barcelona, chanting slogans and waving placards and rainbow-colored flags.
“The response to the wave of LGBT-phobic hatred that ended the life of a 24-year old nursing assistant in A Coruna is overwhelming,” the left-wing Podemos party that governs in coalition with the ruling Socialists wrote on Twitter.
The victim was beaten near a nightclub in the early hours of Saturday in the town of A Coruna, northern …
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