E/CN.4/2000/16 page 20 Government reply 73. In January and February 1997, 11 cases of attacks on immigrants were reported; the majority of the victims were North Africans working in different localities in the Cartagena region. The attacks took the forms of blows with sticks and stone throwing; they were perpetrated from two cars when the victims were walking or cycling in the street. The majority of the incidents were not brought to the attention of the Civil Guard, since the papers of the victims were not in order. 74. The competent police authority is the gendarmerie by virtue of its territorial competence. Consequently, the national police forces do not intervene in these cases. (c) Granollers (Barcelona) 75. A group of skinheads attacked a young Gambian. Two of the attackers were arrested after striking B.K., seriously injuring him. B.K. has filed a complaint and is awaiting the judgement. Government reply 76. Bahoreh Konthe, a Gambian citizen with identity papers No. 1393208-Y, born on 1 January 1960 at Demba Kumda (Gambia), the son of Tamba and Mesa, residing at 189 Vía Girona, flat 4D, complained, in statement 4786 of 30 November 1996, of having been physically attacked and threatened with a knife by a group of skinheads. 77. Following inquiries conducted by the police officers in charge of the case, Tomás Revelles Carrasco was arrested on suspicion of having participated in the incident. In the statements he made voluntarily at the police station and in the presence of his lawyer, he named Sergio Mallorga Resina, the holder of identity card 47.706.700, as the perpetrator of the attack. 78. Sergio Mallorga was arrested by members of the national police forces and stated at the police station that the person who had produced the knife and threatened the Gambian national was Sergio Ocana Teriz. The latter also admitted participating in the attack, although he claimed that it was the result of a scuffle provoked by the person attacked. When Sergio Ocana, after his arrest, made a statement at the police station, he alleged that Sergio Mallorga had been the attacker of the Gambian national, but that he himself had not produced a knife. 79. The three persons were released, and report No. 1651, dated 22 April 1997, supplementing report No. 4786 dated 30 November 1996, was referred to the investigating magistrate at Guardía de Granollers. (b) Murcia 80. After harassing a number of immigrants, a gang of skinheads battered a young Moroccan, seriously injuring him (18 March 1997). At about midnight a dozen skinheads on the loose in the Malecón district, after harassing several immigrants, chased a young Moroccan, Watiby M.D., and beat him with baseball bats and chains, causing him injuries which made it