Protests as Pamplona gang-rapists released on bail
Friday, June 22, 2018 @ 12:18 AM
PROTESTS are set to be staged all over Spain now that the men who gang-raped an 18-year-old girl at Pamplona's Sanfermines bull-running festival have been released on bail.
In another bitter blow for the victim and other rape survivors nationwide, José Ángel Prenda, Ángel Boza, Jesús Escudero, Antonio Manuel Guerrero and Alfonso Jesús Cabezuelo – all originally from Sevilla and who go under the collective street name of La Manada ('The Herd') have been freed after paying a bail release to the tune of €6,000 each.
They had already been sentenced, but have appealed, and their release has been agreed until the final verdict comes through.
Protesters have already been storming the streets in every province since the end of April, when the male judges in charge of the case decided they were not guilty of rape, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years, but instead 'sexual abuse', which cut their custodial terms to nine years each.
According to the magistrates, no force, violence or intimidation had been used and the victim had not struggled, nor had she expressly refused sex.
The young woman, on holiday from Madrid, had been very drunk when the men offered to walk her home but instead took her into a doorway and took turns to rape her whilst filming each other.
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