Reuters reported.The man told police eight people attacked him in the doorway of his home, cut his lip with a razor, and carved the word “faggot” into his buttock.He recanted his initial claim of being attacked in a central Madrid neighborhood on Sunday, the Interior Ministry told journalists.Spanish society had been rocked by news of the supposed attack, coming only months after a 24-year-old man was beaten to death outside a club in Galicia.
Three people have been arrested in that case.The ministry did not tell reporters the man’s motives or his identity.Protests that were planned before the new information came to light were still held on Wednesday.