Puertollano (Ciudad Real) (EFE).- The National Police is investigating a possible group rape of a young woman from Puertollano, of legal age, that occurred last morning in the bathrooms of a local nightclub.
As reported by the National Police, the sexual assault took place around 5:00 am this Sunday and the facts are being investigated to try to locate the alleged rapists.
The young woman reported the sexual assault and received medical assistance from the health services of the Santa Bárbara Hospital in Puertollano, where the protocol for action against sexual assaults was immediately activated.
The victim was discharged from the hospital after undergoing the relevant medical examinations.
The Police are investigating the events that occurred as a possible crime of sexual violence and have an open investigation to arrest the alleged aggressors.
Institutions condemn the event
The delegate of the Board in Ciudad Real, Blanca Fernández, and the mayor of Puertollano, Miguel Ángel Ruiz, have condemned this possible group rape on Monday, an event that is under police investigation.
“There is no room for any kind of palliative or half measures, it must be condemned outright” Fernández said in statements to the media in the town of Argamasilla de Calatrava, where he has inaugurated an exhibition of women from Castilla-La Mancha.
For Fernández, what matters is that “the investigation is effective and that the culprits pay for what they have done.”
As an institution, it has made all the resources available to the victim of this alleged group rape in Puertollano so that she can recover from its physical and emotional consequences.
In this sense, he has affirmed that the Delegation of the Board in Ciudad Real has already contacted the victim’s family and has made itself available “with all the discretion in the world.”
In addition, he recalled that the Community Board is making “investment in comprehensive care centers for victims of sexual violence” that are going to be built in the Region.
The investigation, under summary secrecy
For his part, the mayor of Puertollano has also “deeply” regretted the alleged rape of a woman from the city by several men, whose investigation is under summary secrecy.
Ruiz has confirmed that both the National Police and the court are continuing the investigation, while the City Council has made available to the victim and her family all the resources that the Women’s Center has to deal with cases of violence or gender abuse.
Meanwhile, the police continue with the investigation and interrogations on the alleged case of group violence that took place in the early hours of this Sunday in the bathrooms of a nightclub in Puertollano.