The Basque Police investigate the alleged rape of a young woman on a train in which she was returning from parties in Bilbao

The Ertzaintza investigates the alleged sexual assault suffered by a young woman on the train that connects

at dawn last Tuesday.

A woman who had participated in the festive acts of Bilbao's Big Week was returning to her house and appeared with symptoms of having been attacked in Durango, a town located 30 kilometers away.

Security Advisor Josu Erkoreka warned today that the young woman does not remember anything about what happened during that early morning, which makes it difficult for the Police to clarify the event.

Erkoreka, who had already alluded to an open investigation yesterday for an alleged rape, has specified today on Radio Popular that the woman appeared on a train and that when a medical examination was carried out in a health center, she presented "conditions that are compatible with a possible aggression sexual".

The Ertzaintza officially maintains that the investigation is open and cannot provide details of what happened.

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points out, however, that the woman appeared at the Durango station at dawn or on Tuesday morning with her skirt torn and pain in the genital area.

The attacked woman would have gotten on the train at the Casco Viejo de Bilbao station -one of the areas with the most festive atmosphere during the Big Week- to return home.

The service provided by the public railway company

has cameras in its stations that are being reviewed by those in charge of the investigation.

The Ertzaintza has registered

at Bilbao parties that began last Saturday the 20th and will end on Sunday the 28th. Neither in these punctures nor in the remaining 42 verified during this summer in the Basque Country have traces of chemical substances been found that could be used to attack women suffered from punctures.

Only half of those attacked filed a complaint with the Basque Police to facilitate the investigation.

The punctures together with minor crimes such as thefts have ignited the political debate on security at parties in the Biscayan capital.

The president of the PP of Bizkaia and councilor in the Bilbao City Council, Raquel González, yesterday underlined the existence of a "serious security problem" both due to the crime figures and the provision of the service to deal with complainants with "endless queues" in police stations.

"The crime figures are going to reach the same in these three or four days as in the last celebrations celebrated, with which

, confirmed González.

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