Overview
- Guardia Civil detained five women after reviewing security footage and brought them before the La Bañeza court.
- The suspects are 18 to 24 years old, and police cited possible charges of bodily injury and brawling as the hate-crime classification awaits a judge.
- The victim, Bianca Lizbeth Fernández, says four women beat her in a pub bathroom after telling her to use the men's restroom.
- She says a larger crowd then attacked her outside using anti-trans slurs, leaving eyelid and eyebrow cuts that required stitches.
- LGTBI+ groups organized protests and public support in several cities to press for accountability and to highlight that hate-crime findings in Spain are made by judges, not police.