Five French men accused of raping a Norwegian

According to the Civil Guard, five boys aged between 18 and 19 were arrested Wednesday at dawn for badually badaulting a 20-year-old girl in a house in the Spanish city of Benidorm, Alicante. The five people arrested, four of 19 and the fifth of 18, all of French nationality, were on vacation in Benidorm.

At 13:45, the victim and a friend, also from Norway, went to the health center of the nearby town of Alfaz del Pi, where the Civil Guard was informed of an alleged case of Sexual badault and badual abuse. an operation that led to the arrests of four people who had planned to return to France all day between 4 am and 4 am and are now in detention.

The victim told the agents that, via the Instagram social network, she herself, born in 1999, and her friend, since the year 2000, had met in Benidorm several young French people who were on holiday in Spain. They met them in Benidorm and went together in the apartment that the French had rented for the holidays, where two of the young men entered a room with a girl.

According to investigators' spokespersons quoted by the local press, this young woman managed to escape from the house while the other girl remained, the one who denounced the group aggression, with the other three boys.

In their complaint to the Civil Guard, the two women provided the data and photographs of the social network profiles of the five alleged perpetrators and added that they had indicated that they would leave for their country on Wednesday at hours. different.

Contact fancia

The Altea Civil Guard has designed a device in Benidorm in which a first sergeant of the French gendarmerie, temporarily badigned to the tourist town of Alicante as part of an exchange program, took part. font in summer.

The support of this Gallic agent "was fundamental" in the investigation, according to the Civil Guard. After ceaseless efforts against the clock, a car carrying a French registration plate was found and, around four o'clock, arresting two of the five alleged attackers.

The other three were captured half an hour later. The two women were transferred to the Villajoyosa hospital to undergo a more thorough medical examination before being released and to formalize the complaint. The investigation is still open in order to accurately determine the degree of participation of each of them and to wait until they are made available to the Benidorm court. Prisoners' sources of defense indicated that these young people had denied having committed the badual badault and indicated that when the complainant wanted to leave the house, she had helped him to get dressed and asked for a taxi for her and her friend. The five young men have still not made a declaration to the Civil Guard although they can do it once, in the following hours, the entry and the registration are done in the apartment in which, according to the complaint, the badual badault was committed.

After the recent decision of the Spanish Supreme Court against San Fermín's "La Manada", which badaulted a girl in 2016 during the popular bullfighting festival in Pamplona, ​​and after a great mobilization of citizens who sensitized the public opinion to this type of business solidarity with the victims, there have been in Spain new group violations very worrying.

Last week, in the city of Bilbao, in the Basque Country, six men between the ages of 18 and 36 were arrested – four were later released – for their alleged involvement in the badual badault of a woman. 18 year old girl in a local park. The phenomenon of collective rapes that becomes visible in Spain is not limited to a specific nationality since four German tourists were arrested in Palma de Mallorca for badual badault of a young woman, also German.