We read in the ARA that "the second woman who accused Íñigo Errejón, in this case of rape, has not ratified the facts before the judge." Her lawyer says that his client is an actress "of recognized public notoriety and potential," and has decided to act this way—the case is provisionally dismissed—because "she is very anxious and fears that her identity will be revealed."

The second woman to denounce Íñigo ErrejónIn this case of rape, he has not ratified the facts before the judge, as reported by the online publication. The Objective And the lawyer for the alleged victim, Alfredo Arrién, has confirmed to ARA that this will likely lead to the provisional dismissal of the investigation that began a few weeks ago.

New attempt by the European Parliament to include the concept of consent in the EU's directive on gender-based violence. The European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties and Women's Rights has approved, by 75 votes in favor, 27 against, and three abstentions, a report advocating for a legal reform that, in practice, would largely extend the Spanish law of only yes means yes throughout the European Union.

After a trial that made headlines around the world and sentenced her ex-husband to 20 years for drugging her and handing her over to a hundred men to be raped, Gisèle Pelicot publishes her memoirs this Tuesday. A hymn in life (Now Books). The book, originally written in French, is being published simultaneously in more than twenty countries and has been translated into 22 languages, a rare feat in the publishing world. "I have rarely been the first editor of a book translated into 22 languages. It is also unique in that it is a book with a significant social impact," explained Sophie de Closets, the book's editor and president of Flammarion, the French publishing house that has put 150,000 copies on sale, on BFMTV.

France has uncovered a new case of a serial rapist targeting children and teenagers. The public prosecutor's office announced on Tuesday that a 79-year-old man has confessed to sexually assaulting 89 minors, all boys, between the ages of 13 and 17 at the time of the crimes, which he allegedly committed between 1967 and 2022 in various countries. The pedophile, born in Annecy, was arrested more than two years ago, but the case had not been made public until now. The Grenoble prosecutor's office decided to release the information—without providing details of the case. modus operandi of the rapist—to try to find all the victims. So far, only half have been identified.

The National Police reported on Friday the arrest in Madrid of a man for broadcasting, via a live streaming application, the sexual assaults he committed against his minor daughter. The arrest of the individual, who is now in prison, took place in December, after a citizen alerted the police a month earlier through an email address set up to report child pornography. Investigators from the Central Cybercrime Unit confirmed that the detainee used private rooms on live streaming applications to attract interested users by showing photos of himself with his daughter in bed. Subsequently, on another application, he broadcast live the assaults he committed against his own minor daughter. The payment the arrested man received for connecting with these pedophiles was virtual currency redeemable on the website for gifts or improved search engine ranking.

Ten men between the ages of 29 and 50 have been charged in northern France with the rape of a 5-year-old boy under chemical submission and with the consent of his father. This was reported Tuesday by the prosecutor's office in Lille, a French city bordering Belgium. In a statement, the prosecutor's office specified that the boy was "introduced to adult men by his own father" and suffered "sexual violence aggravated by the use of chemical substances." The events under investigation span a period between November 2024 and February 14, 2025. The charges also include "rape and sexual assault with torture or an act of barbarity," and "the administration, without the knowledge or consent of a minor, of his or her minor child or control of his or her actions for the purpose of committing rape or sexual assault." The judicial investigation began on February 15, 2025, following a report indicating that a party had been held the previous night in the town of Lille. According to the city prosecutor, Samuel Finielz, the investigation also revealed that the boy's father "was also a victim of rape and sexual assault committed with a chemical substance that same night." Life imprisonment

The maximum penalty for the crime of rape with torture or acts of barbarity is life imprisonment, according to the Lille Public Prosecutor's Office, which stated in a press release that the child is receiving specialized care and is in the custody of his mother. At the time the father subjected his son to the abuse, the father was already separated from the child's mother. Nine of those under investigation have been remanded in custody in recent months. During that time, one of the main defendants in the case took his own life. Specifically, it was last June, while he was already in pretrial detention. The recent Pelicot case

This case is reminiscent of that of Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who was raped by about fifty men while she was unconsciousDrugged by her husband. The Pelicot scandal shook France, both because of the brutality of the events and, above all, because of the gender component in the sexual assaults. During the trial, Pelicot emphasized this aspect, describing current society as "sexist and patriarchal," in which "rape is trivialized." "I was raped, it's not a sex scene," she declared before the court. Her ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, who drugged her to render her unconscious and handed her over to other men to assault her, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the maximum sentence he faced. The court also convicted about fifty men who participated in the rapes.

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In Handmaids of globalization (Icària, 2024), Gabriela Poblet, PhD in social and cultural anthropology, director of Europe Without Walls and currently a professor at the University of Valladolid, examines domestic service in Spain and Catalonia through interviews with women who work as live-in caregivers for the elderly or children. Today, they are primarily women from Latin America, many awaiting residency permits, who have migrated alone and are facing challenges. It is very difficult to escape abusive situations and claim rightsWith the complaints of sexual assault, harassment, and workplace abuse from two former employees of Julio Iglesias' mansionsThe Poblet experience serves to highlight the conditions in which these women work.

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Julio Iglesias breaks his silence and denies everything. The singer published a statement early this morning on his Instagram account in which he asserts that he has not "abused, coerced, or disrespected any woman." "These accusations are absolutely false and cause me great sadness," he says in a three-paragraph text, in which he presents himself as a victim and states that he "has never felt such malice."

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The scandal of the sexual assault allegations against Julio Iglesias, already investigated by the Prosecutor's Office of the National CourtThe revelations have shaken state politics. Reactions to the published information have ranged from the absolute condemnation by Sumar—which is already demanding the removal of the singer's medals—to the defense of Iglesias by the most conservative wing of the PP, led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso. But for the Popular Party, it is an uncomfortable issue, and the position is not unanimous. The party leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has supported the ongoing investigations: "The allegations are very serious," he acknowledged on Telecinco. Feijóo thus distanced himself from the Madrid president, who on Tuesday, in a tweet, downplayed the allegations of Iglesias's former employees—"The raped women are in Iran," she wrote—and said that the Community of Madrid "will never contribute to the discrediting [...] The leader of his own party, on the contrary, confessed to being "very, very surprised" by the information revealed by Eldiario.es and Univision News and has supported the ongoing investigations: he said that "it is important to know if this [the assaults and abuses] is true."

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Two women who worked for Julio Iglesias (Madrid, 1943) at his Caribbean mansions accuse the singer of sexually assaulting them, according to an investigation published Tuesday by Eldiario.es and Univision News. The events allegedly took place in 2021, and the victims, one a live-in domestic worker and the other a physiotherapist, claim they were pressured into having sex with Iglesias, slapped, groped, insulted, and subjected to physical and verbal abuse, as well as a hostile work environment. Neither Julio Iglesias nor his entourage have made any statements. As confirmed to ARA by the National Court Prosecutor's Office, a complaint was filed against the singer on January 5th, and the preliminary criminal investigation proceedings have begun. The prosecutor's investigations are confidential to protect the alleged victims.

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The Public Prosecutor's Office has asked the Barcelona Provincial Court to sentence a basketball coach from the Catholic Center of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat to 43 and a half years in prison, accusing him of sexually assaulting three of his players, aged between 14 and 15, when he was 20 years old. They are also seeking a ban on working with minors. The prosecution's indictment dates back to the 2017-2018 season. The coach was well-regarded and had a close relationship with the players on his team, the prosecution explains. During Holy Week in 2018, the entire team spent several days in Coma-ruga, in El Vendrell, to play in a tournament. The prosecution alleges that the first assault occurred on the last night the team stayed at a hotel in the town. According to the prosecutor, that night the coach sent a WhatsApp He approached one of the teenagers and told her to go to his room. There, he offered her rum and cola, and the young woman fell into a "semi-conscious state that prevented her from remembering almost anything until the following morning." During the night, the prosecution alleges, the coach took advantage of the girl's intoxication to have sex with her until she fell asleep. In the morning, she was dizzy and had difficulty walking, and he told her to go back to his room and not to tell anyone what had happened.

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Javier Esteban, Vox's Director of Networks, has resigned from his position in the far-right party and requested to be removed from its membership list after a complaint of "sexual assault" was filed against him by a 16-year-old who collaborated with the youth organization Revuelta, as he himself reported via X. ~BK_S advanced by The WorldThere are reports of sexual comments and unwanted touching when Esteban was part of the leadership of Revuelta. The alleged victim, now 18, decided to go to the police after the alleged perpetrator left the youth organization and, therefore, was no longer her boss, according to her statement.

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It can take up to three months for a victim of sexual violence in Barcelona to receive specialized care or treatment after seeking help. This is an "excessive" amount of time, emphasizes David Bondia, the Barcelona Ombudsman, in his report analyzing the workings of the specialized service system for supporting female survivors. The report, presented this Tuesday at the institution's headquarters, concludes that the services are not adequately sized to meet the needs of the victims.steady increase in sexual assaults recorded every year "This increase in complaints has overwhelmed the system in the city of Barcelona," Bondia admitted during her speech, in which she called for more resources and more staff to cope. But, in addition, this system is better prepared—or better suited—to assist recent victims of violence than to assist the majority of users: those who seek help months or even years after the assault occurred. The distrust in the system, fear of the aggressor The fear of not being believed, the normalization of aggression, or shame are factors that explain why Less than 10% of survivors report the assaults

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Seven women and one minor have been murdered this year in cases of gender-based violence in Catalonia. Looking at the same data over the last decade, since 2014 there have been 147 femicides: 138 women and 9 minors. This Tuesday, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) released this report, which takes into account both cases of gender-based violence—that perpetrated by a partner or ex-partner, which is the most common—and gender-based violence within the family. The data confirms that 2014 was a dark year, with 19 fatalities. According to Sergeant Andrea Garcia, head of the Mossos' Central Unit for Attention and Monitoring of Victims, this year has seen a "significant decrease in cases," with only eight registered. "But we cannot be satisfied," she warned.

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Family and friends, partners and ex-partners, coworkers, and men they've met through social media. The majority of women who have been victims of rape knew their attacker and suffered the assault in what is supposed to be a safe environment for them, according to data from Hospital Clínic, the referral center for sexual violence cases in Barcelona and the metropolitan area. In the first ten months of the year, the Barcelona center treated 665 sexual assaults, and more than half (365) were rapes. This means that at least one rape victim arrives at the Emergency Room every day. So far this year—pending data for November and December—Clínic has treated 50 more rapes than in all of 2024, and according to the service's professionals, the violence with which these assaults are perpetrated has also increased, given that women are arriving with more injuries, such as bruises and bites. "Most of these women have been raped by someone they thought they could trust. It's important that they know the perpetrator could be someone in their own community," warned Maria Àngels Martínez, gynecologist and president of the Gender Violence and Health Commission at Hospital Clínic, which has released the annual report from the Women's Center. The Clínic report is a good quantitative indicator, but it also provides insight into how this type of violence is perpetrated and how victims react. Each year a new increase in demand is observed Cases of sexual violence have increased in emergency services—this year there have been 6.5% more cases than last year—and in the last five years, 3,254 victims have been treated. Women are the most affected (562), although the number of men treated for sexual violence has also increased (85). In 99% of cases, the perpetrators are identified as men, and the data confirms that most rapes are far from the image of an opportunistic, unknown assailant acting on the street. The majority of perpetrators are men known to the victim who act in an environment supposedly safe for her, such as her home. In fact, 57% of cases occur in homes. Among these known men, the report also highlights the fact that 12% of the perpetrators had established some kind of relationship with the victims through social media—this is the first year this information has been broken down. In that same group, it was concluded that 8.2% of rapists were the victim's partner or ex-partner, and that 5.7% had or have had a work relationship with her. By age group, the youngest victim was 16 and the oldest 89, and four out of ten people treated were 25 or younger. The report indicates that 28% of women under 25 were raped by acquaintances in a home, a percentage that rises to 31.5% among women between 25 and 45, and to 38% among those over 45. "It's appalling, and it's a public health problem," says the director general of the Hospital Clínic, Josep Maria Campistol, who asserts that the situation is "dramatic" and that the intensity of these attacks "is getting worse."

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The electrician accused of leading a pedophilia network in Raval and of sexually assaulting a minor under guardianship He will also be tried for assaulting four other minors in an apartment in the same Barcelona neighborhood. The judge investigating the case has gathered "more than sufficient" evidence to prosecute TLM in another of the separate parts of the same case for sexually assaulting four other minors, recording them without their consent to produce child pornography, and then distributing it.

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Armed and hiding behind large glasses, a beard, and a fake mustache. This is the description of the attacker given by two victims of sexual assaults committed almost four months apart in Gavà (Baix Llobregat). This led police to believe they were dealing with a serial rapist who could strike again. After months of investigation, this Thursday a judge remanded him in custody without bail after taking statements from him, the victims, and several witnesses.

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Crime rates across Catalonia are down slightly, but sexual assault and other crimes linked to sexual freedom are up. This is a snapshot of the Catalan crime map for the first six months of 2025, according to the crime report released Tuesday by the Ministry of the Interior. In Catalonia, more than 50 crimes are reported every hour, and the vast majority—as has been the case in recent years—are thefts and cyber fraud: the two categories together account for almost 50% of all detected crimes. Overall, crime rates are down 4.5% compared to the first half of 2024, with notable declines in homicides (from 44 last year to 24 this year) and burglaries, which fell 15%, but drug trafficking offenses rose 8.4%.

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The Prosecutor's Office has requested this Thursday a sentence of 18 months of exempt prison for the French actor Gérard Depardieu for the sexual assaults that he allegedly committed against a set decorator and an assistant director of the film The green shutters, during the filming of the movie in September 2021.

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