Manada acted "with full knowledge of the facts" with the …

The members of La Manada acted "knowingly" committing a gang rape when they attacked an 18-year-old girl in Seville during the Sanfermin festivities. The young woman never gave her consent and they knew it "without a heroic attitude is necessary for the accused to be aware of his refusal," said the Supreme Court in the grounds of the decision (the verdict was announced on September 21). June) by which all members of La Manada were sentenced to 15 years in prison for badual crimes and one of them, in addition, for stealing the cell phone of the girl after the attack.

The five men "acted knowing that the acts they were carrying out were contrary to the liberty and the badual compensation of the victim". Even more: they found "indifferent the state in which he was totally unprotected and vulnerable".

The intimidation that operated the girl "is clear, without a doubt, the appalling account of proven facts, from which arises a clear compulsion of the will". The young man "was totally annulled to defend the legal property attacked, his badual freedom", they warned the foundations.

The judges pointed out that in the videos recorded by the attackers, the young woman was "overwhelmed, impressed, unable to react, feeling at all times an intense burden and discomfort that made her stupefied, doing all that the accused had done to her. The defendants arrived to badually badault her 10 times in the space of one minute and 38 seconds, knowing that she was alone and inebriated. "

The attack and its consequences

The decision recalls that "in 2016, at the time of the attacks, the girl was 18 years old and" had no personality disorder or history of psychological destabilization; adequate in different areas (personal, educational, social, etc.) and family) ". However, after the rape, he began to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

The rapists José Ángel Prenda Martínez, Ángel Boza, Manuel Manuel Guerrero Escudero, Manuel Antonio Guerrero Escudero and Jesús Escudero Domínguez, were between 24 and 27 years old and went to Pamplona for the San Fermín festivities. Knowing the girl and knowing that she was alone because she had lost her friends in the crowd, they drew the plan for the attack.

During the rape, Guerrero "recorded with his cell phone six videos of a total duration of 59 seconds and took two pictures," while Cabezuelo "recorded a video in the same way, from a duration of 39 seconds. " Leaving the place where they committed the attack, Guerrero also stole the young woman's phone to throw it into a dump shortly after.

A few hours later, gang members commented slyly in two group discussions, "The Flock" and "SFC Disfrutones," what they had done.