Spain: Piba, raped in her flock, felt "intimidated by the weapon and by them" | Chronic

Four young people were arrested in connection with a new gang rape against a teenager in Spain, which took place at dawn on the last Sunday in Manresa, Barcelona province, just one week after the trial. of another minor badaulted by a herd of the same Catalan town three years ago.

The victim, aged 17, said that she had been attacked inside a building. "occupied" located in the historic center of this small town of 75 000 inhabitants located 60 km north-west of the capital.

For the moment, we do not know more about the circumstances under which this new badual badault took place, for which four men between the ages of 18 and 25 have already been arrested, who will testify before being at the disposal of justice, according to police sources quoted by the local press.

The events unfold in the midst of the dismay of the citizens of Manresa and all of Spain after hearing the dramatic story of another teenager who, in October 2016, while she was n & rsquo; Was only 14 years old, was raped at a party by seven boys who forced her. practice bad with them under the threat of weapons.

"I felt intimidated by the rifle (of white) and by them, I just cried", the victim told the court, declaring last week in the lawsuit against the nicknamed group "The Manresa pack" at the Provincial Court of Barcelona.

"We can not tolerate that in a city like Manresa, so calm, two women were raped in such a short time", badured on this day the spokesman of the municipal council, Marc Eloy, in declarations on the radio RAC1.

The case against the multiple violation of Manresa took place on the occasion of the celebration by the Spanish company of the sentence of the Spanish Supreme Court which had corrected and imposed the sanctions of the emblematic case of "The herd" who raped a young woman at the San Fermin 2016 folk festivals in Pamplona.

After a great social and feminist mobilization, the Spanish court finally decided that the young people accused in the first instance of badual abuse had raped the victim and had increased the sentences from 9 to 15 years in prison.

The last sentence forced the attackers, who were at liberty, to return to prison.
The seven defendants are also being prosecuted for badual abuse – one of them for trying to help the victim without help – and the prosecutor 's office is demanding sentences ranging from 10 to 12 years in prison.

However, after the story of the badaulted girl, and possibly after the judgment of the Supreme Court, the Office of the Prosecutor may end up turning the characterization of the facts into a violation.

There is no official data on group violations, but according to the Geoviolenciabadual.com portal. The group Feminicidio.net, which represents the cases that have made the rounds of the media, counts 125 attacks of this type since 2016.