• Basque Country: You are detained as alleged perpetrators of a multiple rape against an 18-year-old girl in Bilbao
  • Sexual assault.One of the six perpetrators had been summoned with the rape victim through social networks

Expressing himself with difficulty, but happy for his release after being arrested accused of raping a young man in a park in Bilbao. Thus, three of the four Algerians released from the courts were released hours after being arrested, along with two other young people who will remain in prison, when an 18-year-old girl reported last Friday that she had been raped by six young people in the park Bilbao from Etxebarria .

"Freedom! Algeria. No problems with the girls ... we do not fuck aggressively. Talk to her and if you do not fuck," said one of the three with euphoria to the television cameras at the exit of the Courts, where they went to comply with the order to appear every day in judicial offices.

"Freedom! Hashish, drug not bad . Good party, agur", the three of the press said goodbye while they showed a joint to the camera next to the document that showed that they had already signed in the Courts.

The men, Maghreb and between 18 and 36 years old , were arrested in the early hours of Friday after a young woman went to a hospital where she reported having suffered a group sexual assault hours earlier.

After giving a statement in judicial offices and going to court, the judge decided to release four of the six defendants and send the other two to prison. A decision that has caused great discomfort in the Neighborhood Associations of Bilbao that denounce that "if the 6 have participated in the violation, the 6 must have the same fate."

In a statement, the Federation of Neighborhood Associations of Bilbao, said that "citizenship has dawned with the news that only two of the six individuals arrested Friday in Bilbao as alleged perpetrators of a group sexual assault on an 18-year-old woman they have been sent to Basauri prison by court order, while the other four have been released on condition that they appear every day in court. "

After warning that the victim "will be able to cross the street with their aggressors" , the federation has asked "what happens to the judiciary", while announcing that it will join the mobilizations that are convened by the feminist movement .

The facts were recorded on Thursday night. Sources of the investigation indicate that the victim had been summoned through social networks with one of the alleged rapists. He had done it in the swing zone of the Etxebarria Park, where he went. At one point, the girl felt observed and persecuted and decided to flee the place in the direction of the Plaza del Gas, just in front of the Bilbao City Hall. The alleged assailants intercepted her and threatened a gun that investigators believe could be false . Subsequently, the six men held her and raped her as a group, as the victim reported.

After the alleged violation, the young woman went to the Basurto Hospital accompanied by her mother, and, from the health center, activated the protocol established in these cases.

The collaboration between the Municipal Police and the Ertzaintza, which had the description of the alleged aggressors provided by the victim , allowed the arrest in the early hours of Friday of the six individuals who committed the sexual assault denounced by the young woman.

The young people assured La Sexta that they are innocent and that "the girl said that the Moroccan was the problem and said that we were not . " "He recognized them for a tattoo and for his pants," said one of the four detainees released.

The president of the Bilbao AAVV Federation, Carlos Ruiz , has warned of the possibility that those allegedly involved in this sexual assault could commit acts of the same type or that were related to other sexual crimes that occurred recently in the capital of Biscay, although the Basque Department of Security has not confirmed this data.

Ruiz has asked the judges "more firmness" against those who have committed these crimes, because their authors often repeat them, "as has been proven in the case of La Manada", individuals who have already accumulated several sentences for similar acts.

" What is the judiciary thinking to release four of those arrested? Why do they make distinctions?" He asked.

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