And it fueled Spain’s own iteration of the #MeToo movement, with a number of massive rallies and social media campaigns voicing support for victims of assault - a widely underreported crime in Spain. The case known as La Manada - or “The Wolf Pack,” after the five men’s self-given moniker - has dominated Spanish headlines for two years. People are finally waking up, and that’s a good sign.” “But on the other, I’m happy because we’ve organized this protest so quickly. “On the one hand, I feel indignant about the sentence,” Claudia Pradas, 22, told PRI. Related: Spain gang-rape case focuses on young woman's social media behavior days after alleged attack In Barcelona, protesters gathered before the city council chanting, “ Yo te creo ” (“I believe you”) and “ No es no” (“No means no”), banging pots and pans and jiggling keys.
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Anger and indignation swept Spain on Thursday after a long-awaited verdict did not find five men guilty of gang-raping an 18-year-old woman during Pamplona’s annual Running of the Bulls in 2016.įollowing a protracted trial many believe put the plaintiff under more scrutiny than the defendants, the men were condemned to nine years of prison each for the less severe crime of sexual abuse, instead of the 22 years and 10 months demanded by the prosecution.īy evening, thousands had flooded the streets and plazas of major cities from Madrid to Seville.
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