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The sexual assault denounced by three American sisters in Murcia last New Year's Eve occurred in two different homes, one in which the youngest of them resided as a student, and another in the house of the three detained for the facts, explained this Friday the delegate of the Government in Murcia, Francisco Jiménez.

Jiménez has explained to the journalists the last details of the investigation, awaiting the statements of the detainees, three young Afghans, after having done so on Day 1 the victims.

Two of the three detainees had recently granted political asylum in Spain and one of them studied vocational training in Murcia; there is no criminal record in their files and they have a residence permit, the Government delegate added.

The three sisters have flown back to their country via Vienna, where they are today. The National Police has contacted the US embassy in Spain to be able to contact them and inform them of the progress of the investigations.

At the moment the expert report of the Institute of Legal Medicine to which the young women were subjected in the Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital in Murcia, as the protocol establishes in these cases, is not in the hands of the National Police, as Jiménez has pointed out, if well, a copy has been provided to the young women before returning to the United States.

The police are collecting images of the surveillance cameras in the central neighborhood of Santa Eulalia in which the girls contacted the detainees in a leisure center during New Year's Eve. In addition, the police investigate the social networks of the people involved.

As Jiménez explained, the younger sister, 18, was studying in Murcia and the oldest, 20 and 23, traveled to the city at Christmas to spend a few days on vacation and return to the country all three together, given that the little girl He had finished his studies.

One of the three young women went to the police station on Wednesday to report sexual assault and reported that her sisters had also been assaulted ; She explained that she had gone with one of the three assailants to the house she had rented in the Plaza de la Candelaria, where the events occurred.

According to his story, the other two sisters went to the home of the other two aggressors, where they were also attacked, the Government delegate added.

The detainees will be brought to justice once the police investigation is completed, in which the UFAM Women's Special Group also collaborates.

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