Granollers (Barcelona), (EFE) age and 13 of whom are under 14 years of age, for which reason they are unimputable.
This was explained this afternoon from the Granollers police station (Barcelona) by the Mossos d’Esquadra spokesperson, inspector Montserrat Escudé, who has detailed that four of those identified have participated in more than one of the eight sexual assaults, counted between July 2022 and June 2023, where all the victims are women and are under 18 years of age.
Extraordinary meeting of the Regional Operative Board of the Sexual Violence Plan
This afternoon an extraordinary meeting of the Regional Operational Table of the Sexual Violence Plan was held in Granollers to analyze the last known cases and the current preventive measures that have been applied since they learned of the first event.
Escudé has explained that six of those identified have been arrested and placed at the disposal of the judicial authority, 13 are unimputable and what has been done has been to pass on their data to the General Directorate of Attention to Children and Adolescents (DGAIA), and the rest have had their statements taken as investigated.
Those identified are not part of an organized group
The Mossos spokeswoman has ruled out that those identified are part of an organized group, and has stated that the majority live in Badalona.
“We are not talking about 21 people who leave in an orchestrated way,” said Escudé, who also stressed that, although all the cases have been resolved, in some of them the investigation remains open due to the possibility that someone can be identified. rather than being implicated in the facts.
The minors are not from a specific neighborhood
Asked if the minors are all from a specific neighbourhood, she limited herself to answering that the cause “has nothing to do with belonging to a place”, but rather “has to do with values, with respect, with not having any kind of affective sexual education” or about their “vital expectations”.
“Putting a name to a space, to a neighborhood, all it does is promote this stigmatization,” he said.
Relationship with the victim
Regarding the degree of relationship they had, in three cases the victim and the perpetrator or perpetrators shared an environment, either because they are a couple or belong to one or the other’s social circle, while in another five cases the aggressor and the victim did not have any previous contact.
Cases during daytime and in a leisure context
None of the eight victims has suffered injuries that have led to medical or surgical treatment, in events that in all cases have occurred during daylight hours, four of which were in a leisure context, three of them in the Màgic de Badalona.
Of the eight attacks, half have occurred in 2022 -July, August, October and November-, while the other three have occurred this 2023 -January, February, March and June- and Escudé has indicated that these are cases “heterogeneous” that “present very different patterns and characteristics”.
Last attack on June 3
The last of the attacks is the one that occurred on Saturday June 3 in a Badalona beach area against a minor under 13 years of age, as a result of which the City Council of this municipality has called an extraordinary plenary session this morning to condemn the facts and to approve that it will appear as popular accusation.
Different preventive talks
Regarding community measures that have been carried out, Escudé explained that some fifty preventive talks on sexual violence in educational centers have been given to 1,380 students between the ages of 12 and 18.
As for the shopping center where three of the sexual assaults took place, patrols on foot in civilian clothes and uniforms have been intensified, as well as the static points, and dialogue with the center’s private security guards has been improved to detect deficits and weaknesses in the space security.
Escudé has also recalled that between January 1 and April 30, 1,247 sexual assaults were registered in Catalonia, 4% of which (58) corresponding to sexual violence with more than one perpetrator involved, although he has not detailed how many of these are related to minors.