Outrage in Spain after alleged racist attack on actor

MADRID – An alleged racist attack on an actor of African descent has sparked outrage in Spain.

Marius Makon, a 34-year-old theatre and television actor born in Cameroon and raised in Spain, was treated for injuries near his right eye after the Sunday early morning incident in a bar in Mostoles, a town near Madrid.

According to Makon, the female attacker said: “I don’t want blacks in this place or in front of me,” followed by “I’m white. I can kill you and nothing will happen to me.” She then struck him with a beer bottle.

Spain’s Migration Network, which groups NGOs and organizations fighting discrimination, is pressing charges and asking for prosecutors to investigate the incident as a hate crime.

Police have arrested a 32-year-old woman originally from El Salvador.