Four men throw a bottle in his face

Three years ago, when the name of Valeri Cuellar It was not as well known as it is now, the “ex-lover” of Álvaro Muñoz Escassi was already in the news, but for a much more unpleasant fact than for having been the final trigger of the breakup between the former jockey and Maria Jose Suarez.

She was 26 years old when, in September 2021, the Colombian woman suffered a brutal attack due to her transgender status. As she reported, in the early hours of Wednesday, September 22, 2021, she went into a bar in Palencia to have a beer and “A group of guys between 30 and 40 years old started with their spiel, with unpleasant comments, gossiping and saying how disgusting“. Later, they went outside the establishment to smoke, and when Valeri came out they were waiting to attack her: “A bottle or glass was thrown in my face, I lost consciousness and woke up in the hospital with stitches.“, he later assured.

Upon leaving the Río Carrión hospital, where she was treated for suffering trauma to her left face, affecting the eyelid and the left supraciliary region, the Colombian woman went to the Provincial Police Station to report what had happened and file a complaint for the homophobic attack she suffered, as she stated that before being attacked they shouted: “How disgusting, a transsexual“.

“This is the first time something like this has happened to me, I have never had any problems for being trans.“, he then declared, before admitting: “I’ve never been afraid, but now I’m broken, inside and out, I’m terrified, knocked out“, he explained to the EFE agency.

The first trans senator Carla Antonelliwith whom Valeri contacted after the terrible event, shared several images of the Colombian after her attack on her X account with these messages of rejection: “Hate and transphobia continue to run rampant“, o “#LeyTransYA They kill us, insult us, hit us, harass us and humiliate us. This is unbearable in a State of Law. This country does not deserve what it has become, where hate speech goes unpunished.“Those who incite are just as guilty as those who break a bottle in our faces,” he complained.