A Spanish city honors two Senegalese migrants for their heroism in trying to save a gay man beating with a homophobic crowd.
The Ibrahima Dick and Magatte N’Diaye are given sons in the city condition “in a Corua on Monday a formal ceremony that recognizes their actions.
Only men would intervene in July 2021, when Samuel Luiz was set to a group of men and was stuck and punched outside the Nightclub in the northwestern west.
The 24-year-old period died in his hospital wounds – an event that aroused national anger and condemnation.
On Monday, at the formal ceremony at the city council, Mayor Inés Rey described migrant actions “Pure Herois”.
The footage that night showed other people looking to watch, some films of mobiles, and the two were just intercede.
“That two undocumented migrants are just jeopardizing themselves to help the victim of a panivated pack of terror,” Mayor Rey said.
“Thank you for your example of danger that everyone else has a lot of losses,” said another councilor, Rosalía López, To Instagram at a post sharing video at the ceremony.
Mr Dick and Mr Ndialiye live in the town without roles in time and to make irregular work, putting them at risk of arrest and discharge if they talk to authorities.
But both men on Monday say they do what they think is the right thing to try to control violence. In front of a crowd of councils on Monday on Monday, they were given the Mayor plaques given them to the condition of “adopted children of a coruuel”.
“We’re not heroes, we do what we need to do,” Mr N’Dialiye, according to a report on the AFP.
Mr. Dick said: “I was born in a family without much … but they gave me many things more valuable than money. They gave me a responsibility than money.
The two are also important witnesses to test Mr. Luiz killers in November, reported in Spain Media.
A jury found four guilty men in the murder, with the court ordering sentences between 10 and 24 years. The court found primary defendants – given a 24-year sentence – screamed homophobic insults during the attack.
Tens of thousands of migrants who reached Spain illegally by boat passages across the Atlantic – with common arrivals from Mali, Senegal and Morocco.
