E/CN.4/2000/16 page 23 SOS Racismo were present, during which light was thrown on all the details of the incident. The investigating magistrate in Guardía de Granollers was assigned responsibility for the inquiry by the police station in Granollers on 5 April 1997. (g) Sabadell (Barcelona) 92. Three skinheads attacked a young Black (April 1997). Salimo X.S. was crossing the Rubió i Ors esplanade on a pedestrian crossing when the occupants of a car began to insult him, calling him a “nigger and a son of a whore”. Then one of the passengers got out of the car with an iron bar ready to hit him; they threw stones at each other, and Salimo was injured. The police later arrested the young skinheads and found knives and Nazi symbols in the vehicle. Government reply 93. As regards the attack on Salimo Silla, bearer of identity papers No. X-1418625-P, born on 14 December 1961 in Guinea-Bissau, the son of Mahmadou and Fatumata, residing at 88 Vía Llobregat in Sabadell, complaint No. 4582 was lodged on 25 April 1997, and the attackers - Juan Sánchez Campaña, Antonio Navarro Huete and Ángel Calahorro Jacobo - were arrested on the very day of the incident by members of the national police force from the local police station in Sabadell. At the time of their arrest they were carrying three knives and insignia with Nazi symbols on them. The case was referred to the investigating magistrate in Sabadell. (h) Santa Coloma de Gramanet (Barcelona) 94. Skinheads attacked a municipal councillor who tried to defend two immigrants at the April Fair (April 1997). A group of 15 skinheads, after chasing a young North African and a young Black man, who took refuge in the Iniciativa por Catalunya (IC-EV) stand, attacked the stand and injured the representative of that association, Manuel García. Government reply 95. As regards the attack which is the subject of a complaint by Manuel García Cuesta, bearer of identity card No. 52.399.809, born on 5 December 1972 at Santa Coloma de Gramanet (Barcelona), the son of Manuel and María, residing at 53 Vía Pompeu i Fabra, 3rd floor, flat 2a, in Santa Coloma de Gramanet, the complainant alleges in his statement (No. 2866, dated 27 April 1997) that he was attacked by four or five young skinheads forming part of a larger group who had entered the Iniciativa per Catalunya stand installed inside the perimeter of the April Fair being held in Santa Coloma de Gramanet. They violently attacked a man of Arab origin and insulted and threatened a black waiter who was working in the stand. 96. The incident took place when the complainant, together with two friends, approached the group of agitators with the intention of protecting the two foreigners and ordering the skinheads off the premises. Once outside, the skinheads began to throw stones and chairs at the stand, and the complainant received kicks and punches which knocked him down. Before the arrival of the police, who had been called by an employee in the stand, the attackers had run away; but the complainant had managed to hold one of them down. The latter was arrested and taken to the police station, where he made a statement.