Dylan Wagemans
A DIPLOMATIC storm has been brewing after a video appeared showing Spanish police officers beating a group of Colombian migrants with their batons.
“I demand an apology from the Spanish government,” said Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro in a post on X.
The video, filmed from a balcony, shows a Colombian woman being thrown on the ground, beaten, handcuffed and then dragged away by officers.
According to reports on the video, the woman was the 26-year-old Layli Colorado who has been living in Spain for three and a half years.
She said that she refused to identify herself when the police asked her who she was, after they were doing an intervention for knife threats in a restaurant.
When Colorado refused to identify herself, she said that she was ‘pushed to the ground’ by an officer and subsequently beaten.
The woman was screaming because she was concerned about her three-year-old son, who was with her.
Her family saw her getting thrown to the ground, and wanted to help her, leading to them getting beaten as well.
What turned into an intervention for a knife threat, led to multiple people getting beaten and arrested.
