• Courts Trial of those accused of a multiple violation in Sabadell

  • Sexual assault The Sabadell rape victim, locked up for fear of her assailants

The prosecutor has subjected the victim of a multiple rape in Sabadell (Barcelona) in 2019 to an incisive interrogation, marked by constant interruptions, during which he has urged her to corroborate all the details of her complaint by repeatedly questioning: "¿¿ Are you sure of that? "

The representative of the Public Ministry has raised this Tuesday before the Barcelona Court during the first session of the trial against four of the six alleged aggressors, for whom he asks for penalties of between 37 and a half years and 40 and a half years in prison for

sexual assault with penetration, one of them as the author and the other three as accomplices or necessary cooperators

for not avoiding it.

The events date back to the early morning of February 2 to 3, 2019 when the victim, who was 18 years old at the time, was approached by a man who could not be identified at the exit of a leisure establishment in Sabadell, who grabbed her by the neck, put her against the wall and sexually assaulted her, as she herself has reported in court.

According to the young woman, the aggressor was part of a group of boys who had been pestering her and a friend in a bar in the municipality: "His own presence was already a coercion."

Next, the aggressor took her against her will to

an abandoned warehouse, a former bank branch occupied by homeless people

, and inside which were the four defendants and a fifth who is on the run, all of them of Moroccan nationality.

"I was constantly trying to seek help because by forcefully taking me away and being bigger and stronger I could not face him. I was afraid for my life," said the victim, who has declared protected by a screen, but whose name and surname it has been revealed on several occasions by the president of the chamber.

Once on the ship, she continued, the six strangers began to argue while she lay

"stuck to the wall, cornered, crying a lot and shaking a lot"

, to the point that she could not help urinating on top of "fear".

"I could not flee (...) I was crying a lot, shaking a lot and begging to be left, that I would not say anything," he detailed before adding: "I did not know if they were going to kill me."

However, his heartbreaking testimony has not prevented the prosecutor from questioning some of the details of his story and asking him, for example, "how did he know" that his attackers argued if he did not understand the language in which they spoke, that if "now she is clear" the participation of any of them in the events or if she remembers that they "ejaculated" inside her.

At one point, after insisting on whether she was "sure" of what she was narrating, the prosecutor asked her to clarify what she meant by being forced to have sexual relations "with violence", despite the fact that she had previously explained that she went the ship against her will and that, once inside, they grabbed her by the body and face to rape her and force her to perform blowjobs.

"How does this event end?" The prosecutor snapped with a harsh tone when the victim, with her voice drowned in tears, detailed how she was raped.

The harsh interrogation to which the young woman has been subjected has worsened even more during the turn of the lawyer for the main defendant, who has come to ask her if she did not remember having "consensual relations" with the defendants or why she did not "screech" or "rang a bell" while being led to the ship.

"I was afraid," the victim defended himself shortly before the court, which barely intervened in these interrogations, cut off the lawyer considering that the question "does not contribute anything."

As the young woman has continued, once on the ship the first aggressor took her to a cabin where he raped her and forced her to have sex in shifts with two other men, one of whom is on trial and the other who gave herself to the escape when he was released before the incriminating toxicology reports were known.

The victim only managed to flee, half-naked, when she was finally led out of the ship

, at which time she took the opportunity to run towards a garage from which a vehicle was leaving and whose occupants took her to the Local Police.

For these facts, for which nine suspects were initially investigated, the Prosecutor's Office also requests the payment of compensation of 60,000 euros to the victim, to whom it asks that the aggressors cannot approach less than a kilometer, and proposes to commute a part imprisonment for expulsion from the country.

During the session on Tuesday,

several witnesses have also testified

, such as the couple who helped the victim and who, after seeing one of the aggressors from afar, have ratified their version, as well as the two friends with whom he was the young woman in the bar the hours before she was raped and the partner of one of the accused, who has asserted that she spent the whole night with him.

The doctor who treated the victim in the hospital has also answered the questions of the parties and who has confirmed that she came wet because, according to her, she had urinated on herself, an extreme that the defense of the accused has tried to dismantle.

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