Demonstration without justice, there is no peace: The Provincial Court files the case of the young man with a disability of gypsy ethnicity who died in Gijón after being detained by security agents and police, at the gates of the El Molinón soccer stadium in Gijón on September 8, 2019 by the stadium security staff. The family had already presented an accusation document in which he compared his death with that of George Floyd and requested penalties of up to 15 years in prison and compensation of one million euros from the Gijón city council and the Prosegur company "A winch jumped with such
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Demonstration without justice, there is no peace: The Provincial Court files the case of the young man with a disability of gypsy ethnicity who died in Gijón after being detained by security agents and police, at the gates of the El Molinón soccer stadium in Gijón on September 8, 2019 by the stadium security staff. The family had already presented an accusation document in which he compared his death with that of George Floyd and requested penalties of up to 15 years in prison and compensation of one million euros from the Gijón city council and the Prosegur company "A winch jumped with such bad luck that it seemed to fall on a girl, " says Eleazar's uncle. The young man, with a disability, became disoriented in the stadium and, when he wanted to return, security prevented him. In the end, the police arrested him for contempt of authority and he ended up dying of a heart attack. The security agents - who were later joined by the police - immobilized him and beat him, as several eyewitnesses affirmed before Judge Belén García. This is also stated in the prosecution's brief: “They placed him face down, with his hands behind his back, and repeatedly beat him, causing innumerable bruises and erythema, erosions on both wrists, deep erosions on both knees, bruises on both cheekbones, erosions on the inner face of the nasal pyramid, on both arms and leg, in the lateral region of the neck and on the upper face of the thorax at the level of the clavicle ”. This is stated in the document where, in addition, several modifying circumstances are added: the aggravating circumstances of abuse of superiority and racist motives in addition to the evident disability of the victim. That he was violent, that he was drunk, drugged or even that he could be a terrorist, was what the Prosegur company guards claimed to justify their actions. However, the magistrate who has instructed the case has been dismantling these theories in each of the cars that has been issued, and whic