Logroño (EFE).- The mayor of Logroño, Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza, addressed the two 12 and 13-year-old girls, victims of an alleged group sexual assault in the capital of La Rioja, to tell them, on behalf of the citizens , that “you are not alone. There are many more of us, women and men, who reject violence against women”.
In this sense, Hermoso de Mendoza has spoken at a rally, convened by the City Council, within the city’s mourning protocol against sexist violence, on the occasion of this group aggression and in which a minute of silence has been observed.
The event occurred on the 9th in the storage room located in the portal of a building on Avenida de Navarra in Logroño and seven minors between the ages of 13 and 17 have been identified, of whom five have been arrested for being over 14 years old, while the two 13-year-olds have remained under the guardianship of their parents.
In reading the manifesto before the collaborative mural against gender violence painted on a wall on General Urrutia street, the mayor also conveyed “the total rejection and condemnation of the citizens of Logroño of sexist violence and, specifically, of this alleged group rape of two minor girls in our city last Sunday.”
+ A manifesto before the collaborative mural against gender violence
“You are not alone. We also want to express our express support for victims and relatives”, Hermoso de Mendoza stressed in this rally, in which, according to data from the City Council, some 300 people have participated, including the president of the La Rioja Government, Concha Andreu.
“Macho violence is the most extreme example of gender inequality. As a society, it challenges us and demands that we act”, said the mayor.
He has also stressed that he is aware that “physical attacks are just the tip of the iceberg and that most of the sexist violence still remains invisible and is not recognized”.
He added that it is “the responsibility of all people, men and women, to work to build the democratic and egalitarian society in which we want to live”, a society in which “violence against women, in any of its manifestations, has no room”.
After reading the manifesto, two 17 and 18-year-old girls, members of the Pioneers Foundation, have read two writings rejecting sexist violence: a poem by the Mexican poet, storyteller and journalist Patricia Karina Vergara Sánchez and another alluding to the rejection to the abusers of women.
This concentration has concluded with a minute of silence and applause from the participants, who have stood in front of the collaborative mural against gender violence, painted by more than 150 people; and that it is located on one of the walls of the square presided over by a fountain in which there is a sculpture that reflects the face of a woman.
+ Victims of the Logroño group attack recognize two of the detainees
The two 12 and 13-year-old girls who were victims of a group sexual assault in Logroño have recognized this Thursday as alleged perpetrators two of the five adolescents who were arrested for these events, for which the La Rioja juvenile judge has ordered their closed confinement.
The internment will be in the Valvanera Center for Minors in the capital of La Rioja, the Superior Court of Justice (TSJ) of La Rioja has detailed in a note, which is the same measure that the juvenile judge ordered this Wednesday for two other allegedly involved in this event, which occurred last day 9.
During yesterday, Wednesday, the five adolescents arrested, between the ages of 14 and 17, appeared before the Prosecutor’s Office and the juvenile judge, who ordered two of them to be confined under a closed regime and a restraining order and prohibition to communicate. with the victims for the other three.
+ The judge orders the internment in a closed regime
During this Thursday, at the request of the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office, two of the three minors who were released with a restraining order have appeared again.
These two have been recognized by the victims as two of the adolescents who participated in the alleged group sexual assault, added the TSJ of La Rioja, for which reason the judge, after holding an appearance with both alleged aggressors, has ordered their internment in closed regime.
The event occurred late last Sunday afternoon in a storage room located in a doorway of a building on Avenida de Navarra, a street located in the vicinity of the Old Town of Logroño, where the two victims went after being summoned through the Instagram social network.