The National Police confirmed on Tuesday the arrest of three men accused of the gang rape of a homeless woman, last mid-September, in the storage room of a building in Zaragoza. The victim was a regular user of the municipal shelter in the Aragonese capital, where, as she reported in her complaint, she was regularly the victim of harassment from several young people she usually met in the establishments.
The Minister of Social Policies and Equality of Zaragoza City Hall, Marian Orós, told the media during a press conference to offer data on gender-based violence that at no time did the woman wear these made to the attention of social workers at the installation. and in no way did she state that she didn’t feel comfortable. Likewise, Orós explained that the event would have occurred outside the shelter’s facilities.
After leaving the establishment due to the pressures she suffered, the woman explained that on the night of the rape, she drank beer in several bars in the city, but she told investigators that she did not remember not in the way she had arrived at the storage room. where the reported events took place.
Apparently, according to the publication Herald of Aragonthe woman sent several WhatsApp messages to an acquaintance to tell him about the events, after waking up half-naked in the storage room, and was finally located unconscious by members of the local Zaragoza police in a warehouse frequented by destitute passers-by.
Information on the attackers
In the ambulance in which she was transported to the Miguel Servet Hospital in Zaragoza, the victim gave identifying information about her attackers and, a few weeks later, she managed to identify one of them in municipal accommodation centers.
The arrest of the first suspect led the agents of the Family and Women Unit of the National Police of Zaragoza to the subsequent arrest of the rest of the members of the group responsible for the harassment and rape suffered by the woman.
Oros rejected the attack and, as ultimately responsible for the municipal shelter, explained that on the day of the events, workers tried to convince her not to leave the building, but she did not accept. “There is freedom of movement” and she is an adult, recalled the advisor.
The municipality’s social services accompanied the woman in the process of filing a complaint, once she left the hospital and returned to the shelter, he added.
