Two Metrovalencia security guards are being investigated for holding and handcuffing a 25-year-old Ghanaian man who was traveling Saturday night with his mask wrong . Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat ( FGV ) wants to clarify what happened after the video recorded by other passengers in the car went viral, showing how two security guards, a man and a woman, helped by two other passengers, hold the man by the Strength to handcuff him while at least one passenger rebukes them for their attitude and asks them to release him.

The nervous man tries to resist, but the guards, one of them with his mask also misplaced, immobilize him by grabbing him by the neck. "Why are you doing this to me, buddy? Why am I black?" And he yells, "You motherfucker!" shouted the man in handcuffs, who even refuses to sit as requested by the guards and passengers. Private security notified the Civil Guard and the young man was expelled from the subway and taken to the Paiporyta barracks (Valencia).

FGV has requested the recording of security cameras to view the entire incident in order to determine the trigger for the incident , and a report has been requested from the security company to take the necessary measures.

From parties such as Podemos and Esquerra Unida, the company has been asked to clarify whether it is the normal procedure for all travelers who do not comply with the obligation to wear a mask on public transport, which they consider an abuse, or if it is also a case of racism. According to the company, there have been 1,973 interventions related to misuse and of these, 64 required the presence of the National Police or Civil Guard.

For its part, Alternativa Sindical , a union that represents the private security guards of the metro, has issued a statement in which they point out that the man, of African origin, resisted the security guards who were trying to convince him of the obligation to use the mask in the train, and "they were forced to cut him down . "

They assure that, when asked to put on the mask, the young man refused because the rest of the passage also had it lowered, "a fact that, as the video image shows, is uncertain, since all the rest of the passage wears it correctly", assures the labor union. "At the insistence of the security guards, the traveler was finally forced to upload it, but then began to insult the guards, call them racists and kick, which led to a struggle and arrest," he argues.

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