Category Archive for : ‘SPAIN’

December 11, 2019
Europol

A successful operation in encrypted chat groups has been carried out by Policia Nacional of Spain. The investigation, begun in 2017 and led by the Central High Tech Crime Unit, has led to search and arrest actions in Spain, Italy and France.
In total there have been 33 investigations launched from Operation Chemosh with 26 of those begun in Spain. Notably the average age of those arrested in Spain is 22 due to many of those investigated being minors. Europol supported the investigation with analytical support, secure exchange

September 2, 2019
Chiara Giordano
Independent

A Spanish Big Brother contestant first learned of her own alleged sexual assault when she was forced to watch it in the diary room.
Carlota Prado had passed out after drinking and was completely unaware of what had happened until she was sent to the diary room to watch video footage of the incident several hours later.
A tearful Ms Prado can be seen clasping her hands to her mouth and slowly shaking her head as she asks for the video to be stopped in another recording, which has

November 5, 2019
Lucia I. Suarez Sang
Fox News

The streets of Spain were filled with protesters – mostly women of all ages – on Monday as they demanded the country’s laws be changed after five men were acquitted of raping an unconscious 14-year-old girl.

Outside the gates of the Ministry of Justice in Madrid, several hundred gathered holding banners reading, “I do believe you!” and “It’s not abuse, it’s rape.”
Monday’s protests were held in more than 40 cities as the hashtag #EnoughPatriarchalJustice spread on social media.
The protests came after a Barcelona-based court acquitted

October 31, 2019
Raphael Minder
The New York Times

MADRID — A Spanish court on Thursday sentenced five men to prison terms in the sexual assault of an unconscious 14-year-old girl, but the men were convicted on a lesser charge of sexual abuse after the court ruled that they did not use violence during the attack.
The verdict is likely to intensify the debate over whether the country’s judiciary treats victims of sexual attacks fairly, coming after a 2018 court verdict in a gang rape in Pamplona had roiled the nation. Those men were

FBI

On Wednesday, Europol released the results of its first joint operation with the FBI againstinternational child predators, announcing the identification of eight child victims and the arrestof 17 individuals for child sexual molestation and production of pornography.  OperationAtlantic has led to the identification of 37 child sex offenders in France, Italy, the Netherlands,Spain and the United Kingdom.  The leads and intelligence gathered by the FBI that formed thebasis of Operation Atlantic helped link suspects in five countries to pedophile groups, includingthe notorious Boylover network.

A six year old girl from Northern Ireland was kidnapped from her room in the Barcelo Cala Vinya hotel in Palma Nova early Monday morning and raped at a dark corner of the hotel grounds near a swimming pool.  A police investigation is underway on the Spanish island of Majorca and a 17 year old man, said to be British, has been questioned about the incident.  He has since been released but his passport has been taken from him and police are awaiting the outcome of forensic tests.  Reports from