Another alleged group and simultaneous rape with minors as protagonists mobilized the National Police in Logroño on Sunday afternoon. As has been happening in cases of this nature known in Spain in recent weeks, the young age of the adolescents who perpetrated the aggression again caught the attention of the investigators.

According to sources close to the investigation, there are a total of seven boys, all of them friends with each other. Only one of them is 13 years old - therefore not imputable since the criminal age is 14 - while the rest are between 14 and 17. The girls are between 13 and 14.

They were arrested yesterday and in the afternoon they were transferred to the Superior Police Headquarters of La Rioja waiting to be made available to the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office, which has imposed a total secrecy to pronounce on the matter. The 13-year-old boy has been placed in the care of his parents. The Family and Women's Care Unit (UFAM) has taken over the investigation.

The events occurred on the afternoon of last Sunday, April 9, at number 16 Avenida de Navarra in the capital of La Rioja, in the vicinity of the old town. It was at the entrance of the building of one of the alleged aggressors – all of them of gypsy ethnicity – located in a conflictive area of the city. The tension yesterday afternoon was maximum at the doors of the Superior Police Headquarters of Logroño, where the families of the detained minors congregated.

Five of them were arrested, the sixth was under the responsibility of his parents (being under 14 years old) and the seventh is identified but not yet detained, as the same sources told this newspaper.

Apparently, the same sources indicate, the sexual assault occurred in a kind of basement in which the teenagers used to meet. The first data of the investigation indicate that, apparently, the minors stayed with the victims in the building and, when they arrived, they raped them in a group.

About an hour and a half later, around 20.15 hours on Sunday, the two girls managed to leave the cabin and stopped a patrol of the Local Police who were in the vicinity of the portal.

In an obvious state of nerves, they told the agents what had happened to them and they, in turn, raised the alarm to the National Police. A patrol moved to number 16 Avenida de Navarra. Apparently, some of the alleged aggressors were still there, as the agents were able to verify. The 14-year-old child involved in these events was placed under the guardianship of his parents and those over that age were arrested for the rape reported by the girls.

Given the delicacy of the facts, both the Police and the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office of Logroño threw the bolt to the proceedings and the investigation is under summary secrecy, as they insisted yesterday from the Superior Police Headquarters of La Rioja.

The Juvenile Prosecutor's Office, which is responsible for the investigation, shall refer the proceedings to the Juvenile Court once its work has been completed. In the vicinity of this building, whose access door to the portal has a broken glass and where you can see, from outside, dirt and some painted on the walls, groups of young people from the area usually congregate in their leisure time, according to the testimonies of several neighbors of this street collected yesterday by Efe. Pack rapes among minors have increased considerably in recent times, as juvenile judges and prosecutors warn.

Among the main causes, according to the criteria and experience of these professionals, is the distortion of the idea of sexuality due to the early and unfiltered consumption of pornographic content for which they are not prepared.

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