A gay Latvian man died on Wednesday after suffering severe burns in what LGBT associations denounced as a homophobic attack.
Normunds Kindzulis was a 29-year-old medical assistant who suffered burns on 85% of his body on April 23. His clothes had been covered with gasoline and burned, AFP reported.
He had previously received homophobic threats and had moved from Riga to Tukums, a quiet town 70 kilometres west of the capital, according to local press reports.The local police did not rule out the possibility of suicide because of the threats he received. "Bringing someone to the brink of suicide is also a crime," Latvian police officer Andrejs Grishins told reporters on Thursday.