The Prosecutor’s Office requests 196 years in prison for the 5 accused of sexually assaulting three women in 2021 and recording a fourth without her consent while she was having sex with one of the defendants and spread the video in a WhatsApp group.
In the brief from the public ministry, advanced by La Vanguarda this Monday, the Prosecutor’s Office maintains that between March and May 2021 the accused contacted through social networks with young people who “had low self-esteem and, once their trust was gained, we proposed meetings with them that, on the occasion of the pandemic situation that led to the closure of leisure venues and limitations on mobility, took place on the floor of one of them.
women They agreed to these parties voluntarilybut the Prosecutor’s Office maintains that they were unrelated to the group and sexual nature of the same, while they came “with the knowledge and willingness to attack the sexual integrity of the young women, creating in said home a climate of submission that came to diminish and even to nullify the capacity of the injured parties to react”.
For this reason, the prosecutor’s office considers that the defendants constituted a “criminal group for the commission of crimes against sexual indemnity” and attributes to them three crimes of sexual assault with penetration (two of them continued) and two crimes of discovery and disclosure of secrets with dissemination of personal data.
The WhatsApp group
The Prosecutor’s Office brief emphasizes that the accused communicated through a group of WhatsApp that they used to select the victims, in which they “mocked what they intended to do with them” and in which they commented and boasted about the alleged sexual assaults once committed.
Among the multiple conversations of a sexual nature in which they describe the alleged sexual assaults, one stands out in which one of the defendants addresses another saying: “I would pass you the phone number of someone who “She’s very slutty and she’s fine, but I don’t trust her because I see her capable of reporting me.”.
According to the Prosecutor’s indictment, on April 27, 2021, one of the accused met with a woman whom he had known for years, even though he was “fully aware that suffers from a disability“and summoned her to the floor.
The rest of the defendants showed up there by surprise and, after she consumed alcoholic beverages and He was in a state of intoxication that made it difficult for him to remain standing.three of them allegedly raped her in the presence of a fourth accused, even though she asked them to stop, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
In May of that year, the same defendant He contacted another girl through Instagram and he met her at the apartment, where he met by surprise with the rest of the accused and, after consuming alcoholic beverages, the victim and one of the now accused voluntarily kissed in a room, although without having relations.
The Prosecutor’s Office maintains that two other subjects burst in without prior notice and abruptly and that one of them forced her to perform fellatio, to which the woman finally agreed due to “panic to suffer a greater attack on his sexual freedom in the presence of the rest of the defendants in the house, circumstances that led him to allow himself to be done to avoid a harm probably greater than that which he had already suffered.
They recorded the attacks
Also In May 2021, three of the accused sexually assaulted another victim, an event that they recorded and shared through the WhatsApp group, and the Prosecutor’s Office adds that, on another occasion, one of them recorded a woman without consent while both had consensual sexual relations and spread the images in the same group.
After his arrest, the Court of Instruction 5 of Gavà (Barcelona) decreed his entry into provisional prison, communicated and without bail.
In addition to the 196 years in prison, The Prosecutor’s Office asks that they compensate to the first of the victims with 50,000 euros, to the second with 80,000 and to the third with 70,000 for the moral damages caused.
