E/CN.4/2000/16 page 26 was prepared. The two victims affirmed that they recognized two attackers from among the photographs shown to them. It emerged that the persons identified no longer had the same physical features as in their photographs; thus the possibility of their involvement was eliminated. 109. The incident took place at 2 a.m. in a public park known as a place of male prostitution and of acts of aggression and provocation between Spanish and foreign “chaperos” (homosexuals). The description of the incident has brought to light errors which have no incidence on the inquiry. (l) Badalona (Barcelona) 110. Two skinheads robbed and attacked a North African (September 1997). At 11.30 p.m. two skinheads threatened a North African selling tobacco in Vía del Mar with a knife and robbed him of two cartons of cigarettes and 7,000 pesetas. They then insulted him and beat him until the local police arrived and drove them off. Government reply 111. In the case of Mohamed Anjun Khan, a Pakistan national, bearer of passport No. A-56246, born in Karachi (Pakistan) on 9 March 1960 and residing at 5 Vía Sant Cugat, first floor, in Barcelona, who was robbed and attacked by two skinheads, the national police force has only undertaken to carry out the necessary inquiries (No. 6492) and to transmit the results to the investigating magistrate in Barcelona, this because the actual intervention was effected by members of the Barcelona city police, which was responsible for policing of the area in which the incident took place and was called by a number of citizens who had witnessed the incident. 112. Members of the municipal police took Alejandro Izquierdo Gálvez, bearer of identity card No. 46.717.342, to the premises of the national police in Badalona, where he was arrested and charged with an offence of robbery with intimidation, assault on the public highway and usurpation of functions. He was remanded in custody, and the case has been referred to the courts. (m) Valencia 113. A skinhead-style group stabbed a Black Portuguese citizen (28.11.98). Manuel G.N., hailing from Lisbon and aged 33 years, was brutally attacked by a person resembling a skinhead who stabbed him with a knife while threatening him in the following terms: “We do not want either Blacks or Arabs in Spain, so go back to your country”. An eyewitness called the police and stated that he had seen the attacker stab Manuel, who had to undergo an emergency operation. This is the second time that Manuel has been a victim of a racist attack; during the previous year he had been beaten and stabbed by two young neo-nazis in Madrid. Government reply 114. The information concerning the attack on a Portuguese citizen known as Manuel G.N., of Black race, by a group related to the skinheads, who are alleged to have stabbed him with a knife