Dominique Moreau and Melannie León lived in downtown Santiago, Chile, until last Friday. They had to leave their home after three neighbors insulted them, threatened them with a gun, and vandalized the front of their house. Today they will file a police report, and the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh) confirmed to Presentes that it will be a plaintiff. Last Friday, Dominique Moreau, 25, was leaving her home in downtown Santiago for work when a neighbor confronted her, calling her a "fucking lesbian." That same afternoon, a neighbor alerted her to another incident. While she and her partner, Melannie León, 28, were at work, that same neighbor, along with her husband and mother, had vandalized the front of their house.

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The neighbors, who have been harassing them with insults and threats for two years, threw red paint on the walls and destroyed all the plants. When Dominique and Melannie returned to the neighborhood, they went to the Fourth Police Station to file a report and asked for an escort home for fear of further attacks. According to the couple, the police didn't stay long and didn't inspect the surrounding area. After they left, two neighbors appeared and began beating Dominique, and the husband of one of them threatened to kill her with a gun. The police were nearby, but, as the women recounted on social media, “they did nothing. We begged them not to leave us stranded there with them. After pleading, we got in the patrol car, and they dropped us off a block away. They pressured us so much that I couldn't even get my cats out, for fear they would hurt them.”

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Dominique and Melannie were terrified and didn't dare return to the house. They have been staying with relatives since Friday. Only yesterday, Sunday, accompanied by representatives of MOVILH (Movement for Homosexual Liberation), were they able to go and retrieve their belongings. “At Movilh, we are supporting them in this appalling case of lesbophobia. We have already filed the appropriate police reports and now we expect a prosecutor to be appointed within the next 48 hours,” he told Presents Rolando Jiménez, director of the organization. Movilh, in addition to providing advice, will be a plaintiff in the legal complaint for crimes of threats and discrimination. “We will assert our rights the Zamudio law "And we will also meet with the National Police Directorate because there was police negligence. No one protected them," she added.

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This attack occurred at a time when Chile is getting closer to marriage equality: this morning the president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, He signed the bill to send to Congress. ]]>