The family of the 11-year-old girl who suffered a gang rape in the Màgic shopping center in Badalona will leave the city in the coming days after the threats she has suffered in recent weeks from the environment of the alleged aggressors. Especially the verbal and physical threats received by the victim's brother. The aggressors are all free today, while waiting for the raped minor to testify before the Fisalía in June.

"I'm going to stab you so that your mother and father will suffer for you. And for liars. You're dead, buddy," a young man from the entourage of one of the aggressors sent to his brother's phone. Days later, another young man threatened him with a knife at the gates of the school.

This climate of threats and impunity has led the family, originally from Ghana, to make the decision to leave Badalona in the coming days. The social services have been collaborating with the family in the process for the change of residence in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, although it could even be outside Catalonia, according to journalist Anna Punsí and municipal sources have confirmed to EL MUNDO. At the same time, the mother of the child has left her job to accompany her daughter to the psychiatrist.

The departure of the family breaks the spiral of silence that the authorities have imposed on this group rape, committed on November 19, in which up to six minors would have participated, three of them 13 years old, and therefore not imputable. All in freedom. When the rape became known, the girl's sister crudely told the press what happened: "She could not escape because she had the knife in her neck and they threatened to kill her. When they finished, they left her lying around." She also regretted that the suspects "did with her what they wanted, basically" since they approached her when she was alone in the mall threatening her with a knife, took her to the bathroom and there they raped her in a group.

In fact, the family did not know anything about what had happened until another brother commented that a video of the aggression was circulating in the institute, so they went to report it to the Mossos who began to investigate. This complaint has caused the brother to be the object of all kinds of threats, even at the gates of the institute where he studies.

MORE VIOLATIONS

This case of rape in the well-known shopping center of Badalona could not be an isolated case. Entities such as the Comitè de Mares contra la Violència Sexual a 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 in this shopping center of the city.

Specifically, they denounce that, in addition to the 11-year-old girl raped by six minors, at least two other minors, aged 14 and 17, have suffered group sexual assaults in the toilets of the well-known shopping center. Another investigation for abuses in these toilets of the shopping center would affect an adult who attacked a minor he had met through social networks, and they were in this establishment, according to La Vanguardia.

The entities also point out that the victims were "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." Therefore, they believe that there is an obvious case of "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 following an alleged sexual assault at the mall 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.

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