The video of the arson attack on an LGBT cultural space in Palermo

The Maricafé bar and bookstore, on Honduras street at 4000 in the Palermo area, became one of the key points of the LGBT community in the City in recent years. With the visibility of sexual diversity As its core, Maricafé offers projections of series and DJ sets at sunset between drinks, salads, wraps, a cafeteria and a series of multicolored rainbow cakes dipped in cream or chocolate inspired by the LGBT flag, as well as a carrot cake and one red velvet cake very interesting. His cultural contribution to the current map is considerable.

In the early hours of Saturday, at 5:23 AM, two men arrived at the place already closed and with the blinds lowered: they threw a burning pillow and fled.

The attack was denounced by the place itself before the Buenos Aires Police and on its social networks. “This morning, at 5:23 AM, two individuals set fire to what appears to be a shattered pillow and threw its contents on fire towards the door and along the premises on Honduras Avenue, reinforcing in a second instance the remnant in calls. These two attackers, before leaving, stood watching for the second time and withdrew”, assured those responsible for Maricafé in a statement issued yesterday on their Twitter account.

The fire did not enter the premises and did not cause material damage. Upon learning of the attack, they spread it on their social networks along with the images captured by security cameras where silhouettes of those responsible can be seen.

The suspicion is that it is an attack and intimidation directed especially at the place. “No other place in the area suffered something similar,” they said. The fact does not obey the patterns of arson attacks that have been recorded in recent years in the city of Buenos Aires in recent years, with an assailant or group of assailants attacking multiple targets within a given range during the same night, primarily parked cars.

In the statement, they assured that filed a police report “to identify these people recorded by our cameras, in addition to requesting the intervention to the LGBT Ombudsman of the City of Buenos Aires since all the actions are suspicious, ”the statement continued.

For now, It is unknown if the event is isolated or if it is part of a larger issue directed at the community in Buenos Aires. The aggressors did not leave proclamations and no videos emerged so far claiming responsibility for the attack, as happened with a series of graffiti on a Left Front premises in La Plata at the end of last year.

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