Summary of news
- An 11yearold girl was gang raped in a shopping center in Spain.
- A group of teenagers threatened the girl with a knife and took her to the bathroom.
- The case would have happened late last year in the town of Badalona, near Catalonia.
The rape is said to have taken place at the shopping center in Badalona, Forta Spain, via Portal
The recent revelation of the rape of an 11yearold girl by a group of teenagers, some as young as 14, near Barcelona has shocked Spanish society, which is wondering how violence among young people is people can be stopped.
The facts, revealed this week in local press, allegedly happened in November when an 11yearold girl walking through a shopping center in Badalona, in the greater Barcelona area, was surprised by a group of six minors who attacked her with a Knives threatened to take her to the bathroom, where they raped her.
At the request of AFP, the Catalan regional police confirmed that in December they received a complaint of “sexual assault” which includes various types of violence, including rape, in the Spanish penal code between minors. The police declined to provide any further information about the case because they were minors.
In a statement to the press, the public prosecutor’s office said they would “not provide any information on the case because the instruction is confidential.”
For its part, the municipality of Badalona, a town of 223,000 inhabitants about 10 km from Barcelona, announced that it “wants” to act as assistant to the public prosecutor in a future trial “in defense of the victim of group sex aggression”.
Most of the alleged attackers were under 14 years old, the legal minimum age in Spain. A few weeks ago, the public prosecutor’s office requested that the only two people over the age of 14 be detained in a center, the newspaper El País reported. However, the judge only approved the entry of one of them and the other is on probation.
The local press reported that the alleged victim’s brother was threatened after the family filed a complaint.
This Friday (10), Justice reported that a judge had approved the sixmonth hospitalization of a minor detained for “obstructing justice and threatening a third party or third parties in connection with a case he is investigating.” an alleged sexual assault by a group against a minor in Badalona”.
The information that has come to light about the case has raised major social concerns about sex crimes committed by minors, which, according to the regional police, accounted for more than 12% of the total in Catalonia last year.
The situation requires “that we all understand and analyze what is happening to us as a society, because these behaviors are intolerable and normalized,” said Montserrat Escudé, spokeswoman for Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalan regional police, last Thursday (9). .