Content warning: This story may include topics that some readers may find uncomfortable. Police in Madrid, Spain, where the incident took place, are investigating what happened as a hate crime.
The victim was reportedly chased by the group, who were shouting homophobic slurs at him, when he was walking home on 5 September at around 5:15pm.
He was cornered at the entrance of a building before being threatened with a knife and having his lip cut open with it. The mob then proceeded to carve the Spanish word for “f****t” on his backside which, according to the Madrid Observatory against LGBTphobia, will join the list as one of the 103 anti-LGBTQ+ assaults so far this year in the city.