E/CN.4/2000/16 page 24 97. The person arrested was Angel Arriaga Marchena, bearer of identity card No. 53.078.575, born on 17 August 1979 in Barcelona, the son of Emilio and Dolores, residing at 2 bis Vía Europa, flat 1a, in Badalona. In his statement he declared that he was at the place where the incident took place in the company of three friends, but that none of them had taken part in the attack. Subsequently the friends of the detainee whose names follow were summoned to make statements: Ívan Barriga Vega, bearer of identity card No. 46.763.361; Abel Lorenzo González, bearer of identity card No. 46.703.258; and David Peral Pérez, bearer of identity card No. 53.074.879. The case was referred to the investigating magistrate in Santa Coloma de Gramanet. (i) Valencia 98. A Tunisian was attacked by bouncers in a discotheque because he is an “Arab” (3 June 1997). A security employee in a discotheque in Valencia asked Facuzi H. his nationality; on learning that he was Tunisian he ordered him to leave the premises. He refused to do so; and the two security employees (apparently skinheads) beat him brutally and threw him out into the street. Facuzi then went to seek the assistance of the national police; but the officers did nothing to arrest the attackers, contenting themselves with taking him to the general hospital. This is the second time that Facuzi has been attacked because he is Tunisian. Government reply 99. As regards the attack on a Tunisian by the doorkeepers at the “KUBA” discotheque in Valencia, it is a fact that on 31 May 1997 Facuzi Jeridi, a Tunisian citizen, bearer of identity card No. 830, born on 22 May 1967 at Gabes (Tunisia), lodged complaint No. 6654 against the management and the employees of the “KUBA” discotheque for a racially- and xenophobically-motivated attack. 100. The inquires undertaken led to the arrest of four persons connected in some way with the discotheque and suspected of being implicated in the attack. These inquiries, together with the statements concerning the incident made by witnesses, seem to suggest that a fight started between the Tunisian and at least one other person; that the altercation took place in the street at the door of the discotheque; and that the young Tunisian received injuries which were treated in a dispensary. It was impossible to establish clearly whether or not all the injuries were the result of the fight. 101. The allegation of xenophobia and racism made by the complainant seems equally unfounded; the facts as described in complaint No. 5398 of 6 June 1997 indicate that, if not an act of “sexual aggression”, at least a possible act of violence was committed against a girl who, when describing the incident to other persons, including the employees and her fiancé, stated that the altercation had taken place at that moment. It should be added that the discothèque in question employs an Arab as doorkeeper and that the Tunisian is well known by the employees and the customers as a habitué of the place. That means that his being an Arab was not an obstacle preventing him from frequenting the discothèque. 102. Finally, it should be mentioned that this young man has used 10 different names and given differing information concerning his identity and nationality on the 27 occasions on which