Spain: another sexual crime committed in group or herd shocks

Just days after the start of the trial against the "Manada de Manresa", the mbad rape of a minor in October 2016, another similar event was reportedly committed in this city of Catalonia. A minor was allegedly raped by several men in an apartment in town.

Violations of group or "herd" have become a constant in the sad panorama of gender violence in Spain. In late June, the Spanish Supreme Court sentenced the five members of the first "herd", the San Fermines of 2016, to 15 years in prison for badual badault. With their sentence, the magistrates established a jurisprudence to order that the accused committed a gang rape during the famous festivities of Pamplona. The decision changed the direction of the lower courts, which had characterized the crime of "abuse", a less serious figure. This is why the Supreme raised the sentence from 9 years to 15 years only.

Subsequently, the same aberrant facts were reproduced in a province of Barcelona, ​​in Manresa, a town of 75,000 inhabitants. In October 2016, six young people badually badaulted a minor in a disused factory, taking advantage of the fact that she was drunk and half-conscious. They also pointed a gun at him so that he would not tell them what happened.

Now, after protests and general indignation that these two cases have exploded in the country, a new complaint shook Spain this weekend. Yesterday, at dawn, in the same Catalan town of Manresa, a 17-year-old minor went to the police station and revealed that she had been the victim of several rapes, committed in a address located in the historic center of the city. According to his version, the badault would have been committed around 4 o'clock in the morning.

Police sources confirmed to the Spanish newspaper ABC that the girl had been treated in a health center before filing a complaint at the police station. The case, they explained, is currently under investigation as a crime of badual badault, which in Spain refers to cases of violence or badual badault. intimidation of the victim, contrary to a less severe charge of "badual violence".

The case "La Sanada de San Fermines" was not initially considered a crime of badual badault, a decision that triggered a wave of protests. Under the cry "I believe you," the Spaniards took to the streets to defend the victim. On the basis of the videos recorded by the attackers, the judge found that during the act, the victim had not been a victim of "violence", for which she described the crime " of badual abuse "and sentenced the accused to nine years in prison. The decision was appealed to the Supreme Court, which determined that there was violence and sentenced the defendants to 15 years of imprisonment. Its decision established the case law, which means that the lower courts should be governed by this decision in future cases.

Now, according to Catalan police Mossos of Esquadra, four young people aged 18 to 25 have been arrested for what happened this weekend and they will go to court in less than 72 hours. If the complaint filed by the minor is confirmed, it would be the second case of gang rape that shakes the Catalan city of Manresa. The city's first deputy mayor and spokesman for the city council, Marc Aloy, expressed dismay in an interview with RAC radio 1. "We can not allow this in a city like Manresa, so calm and respectful of the people. People, things like this happen, "he said after declaring that it was unfortunate that" two badaults on women took place in the city in such a short time. " From the consistory, they today called for a concentration in repulsion for this new aggression. The official stated that the city would be at the disposal of the minor plaintiff "for all that is necessary". The macho tradition is very strong in Spain, where the number of femicides is high.