Moroccans represent 9.66% of hate victims of foreign nationality in Spain by the end of 2021, said a report published Monday by the Spanish Interior Ministry on the evolution of hate crimes in the country.
The distribution of the victims according to their nationality reflects that Spanish people are in the first place, with 65.53% of the total victimizations. Within the set of victims of foreign nationality (the remaining 34.47%), Moroccans represented 9.66%, followed by Colombians at 2.72% and Venezuelans at 1.76%.
Overall, a total of 1,874 victimizations were recorded in 2021 for hate crimes and incidents, added the report.
Most of those victimized are men at 63.82%; ages 26 and 40 presented 32.98% of victims, and minors constituted 11.31 of the total victimizations in 2021.
Of the total number of hate crimes and incidents, the State Security Forces managed to clarify 1,133 in 2021, a record level for Spanish authorities, added the same source.
“The historical series shows us that there are more and more acts of hate resolved by the Security Forces, and fewer crimes go unpunished, police effectiveness increases above the growth of this type of incident,” said Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, according to the same report.
Grande-Marlaska recalled that hate crimes “are actions directed against specific people, but whose ultimate objective is also to generate feelings of fear and insecurity in the social group to which they belong, and that is the reason why they constitute a serious threat to the security of society as a whole because they dangerously undermine the peaceful coexistence of citizens.”
In 2021, the State Security Forces and Bodies investigated a total of 1,802 criminal offenses and hate incidents in Spain – 96 more acts of hate than in 2019 (an increase of 5.63%).
Of the 1,724 hate crimes committed in 2021, 639 had a racist or xenophobic motive, a category that rose by 24.08% compared to 2019, added the same source.
Crimes related to sexual orientation or gender identity affected 466 cases, with an increase of 67.63% compared to 2019.
In the third place, crimes related to the victim’s ideology reached 169 cases, with 51.84% of the total, according to the same source.
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