- Joined
- Mar 11, 2013
- Messages
- 15,452
- Points
- 113
Three of the four men are reportedly in Spain illegally
Four men of North African origin, aged between 20 and 33, have been arrested in Pamplona for the gang rape of a young university student during a large student party last Friday night.
Three of the suspects are in Spain illegally and were already subject to unenforced deportation orders, according to police sources cited by El Mundo and Antena 3.
The attack occurred near Media Luna Park in central Pamplona, close to the Amaya sports complex, where the annual event to celebrate the new academic year was taking place. Organized by students from the Public University of Navarre, the annual celebration drew more than 2,000 attendees.
Shortly after 10:00 p.m., several people walking through the park discovered the victim lying semi-conscious under a tree. She was visibly disoriented and showed signs of sexual assault. Her phone and several personal belongings were missing. Police officers arriving on the scene noted that her clothing was torn and that she appeared intoxicated. The young woman told them she had been raped, initially recalling only fragments of the attack.
Medical examinations later confirmed that she had suffered what investigators described as a “high-impact” sexual assault by multiple attackers. She was transferred to the University Hospital of Navarra for medical and psychological care.
Evidence gathered from the area, combined with security camera footage, led to the identification of four suspects who lived together in a makeshift encampment along the river.
All four men were arrested on Tuesday in the San Juan neighborhood of Pamplona. The suspects are acquaintances who shared the same tent in the migrant ghetto, where police believe they returned after the assault. Officers later brought them back to the encampment for a reconstruction of events.
According to Antena 3, the men are of Maghrebi nationality, and three of them are in Spain illegally with pending deportation orders.
Investigators have seized their mobile phones amid suspicions that they may have recorded the assault. DNA samples collected from the victim and the scene are being compared with biological traces from the detainees. Authorities say the results will determine whether all four participated in the rape.
Spain has seen an alarming rise in sexual violence over recent years, culminating in a record-high number of rapes, which reached 5,206 incidents in 2024, according to official statistics published by the Ministry of the Interior in May.
Last month, VOX leader Santiago Abascal posted on social media after news of two other rapes by migrants in Tenerife and Bilbao made headlines.
“Today again. Every day, our women, mothers, and daughters are attacked. Every day, the government of the PSOE and the PP remain silent. Feminism disappears when the rapist is not Spanish,” he wrote on X.
