• Events They investigate a group sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl in the toilets of a shopping center in Badalona

The gang rape of an 11-year-old girl by six minors, three of them 13 years old and therefore not imputable, last November in the toilets of the Màgic Shopping Center in Badalona was not an isolated case. Entities such as the Comitè de Mares against sexual rape in Badalona, the feminist organization Lliures i Combatives and the Sindicat d'Estudiants have expressed their indignation and protest at the increase in these attacks against minors.

Specifically, they point out that in recent months three girls aged 11 to 17 have suffered group rapes in the toilets of this establishment and that they were later "abandoned to their fate by the shopping center, the police, social services and the City Council. Their cases have tried to be covered up to protect the image of the mall." That is why they believe that there is "negligence" on the part of the institutions and the Mossos d'Esquadra in the face of the increase in cases of group sexual assaults in this place.

At the moment, there are four open police investigations related to alleged cases of sexual assault in this place. One of them is related to the 11-year-old girl attacked by six minors, three of them not imputable, last December. The other two alleged aggressors were arrested by the Mossos and one of them entered a juvenile justice center while the other is free with charges.

In addition, the agents received another complaint last February after a 14-year-old girl was treated at a health center after an alleged sexual assault in the shopping center by her partner and three friends. Last August a 17-year-old girl also reported to the Mossos that a group of young people assaulted her threatening her with a knife, they took her to the bathroom and there they forced her to perform fellatio on several of them until she could escape. The same modus operandi as the assailants of the 11-year-old girl, according to police sources who add that the agents are looking for more victims since the girl explained that her friends had suffered a similar situation.

Another investigation for aggressions in these toilets of the shopping center would affect an adult who attacked a minor whom he had met through social networks, and they remained in this establishment, according to La Vanguardia. Given this social alarm over the increase in cases of rape, aggression and abuse of women and minors in this shopping center, the City Council announced that it will reinforce security both inside and outside.

After a meeting between municipal representatives, the Germans Trials i Pujol Hospital, the Urban Guard, the Mossos and the shopping center itself to address the increase in complaints, it was decided to increase the foot patrol of Mossos and Guardia Urbana agents. In addition, Badalona announced that they have activated municipal resources to put them at the service of victims, will review action protocols to detect cases of sexual assault and will appear as a popular accusation in open judicial processes.


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