Content warning: This piece deals with issues around rape and sexual assault and may be triggering for some readers.
In July 2016, an 18-year-old woman from Madrid was walking home from the popular annual San Fermín running of the bulls festival when she was stopped by a group of five men.
The group of men offered to accompany the young woman to her car, where she had been sleeping while visiting the city of Pamplona.
Instead, the men, who were all in their late 20s, forced her into the doorway of a nearby apartment building’s lobby, where all five men raped her while filming the horrific assault on their phones.
Shortly after the attack, the woman was found by a couple passing by, who found her crying and curled up into the foetal position on a nearby bench seat.
The next day, the five suspects were arrested after the young woman provided the police with descriptions.
On the convicted men’s phones, footage of the July 7 attack was found, as well as WhatsApp messages between the men who called themselves “la Manada” (the wolf pack).
According to the BBC, in the messages, the ‘wolf pack’ discussed the need to obtain date rape drugs and rope, “because when we get there, we’ll want to rape everything we set eyes on”.
Top Comments
What on earth gives anyone the idea that violent, intrusive sex with 5 men in a filthy alleyway is "what women want" ?
Most women are absolutely fastidious when it comes to their intimate, personal contacts and their hygiene.
It's not exactly like rocket science to work out that most women prefer intimate scenarios that are warm, gentle, romantic & safe.
That "rough sex & bondage scene" is not exactly the norm.
5 guys "on the prowl" in their self-styled "wolf-pack" can't be serious to think that they deserve a "defense " lawyer.
5 against 1 - that's what sniveling cowards do..............weak, ugly sniveling cowards who feel so entitled they're happy to use vicious group violence to take what's not theirs.
The victim remained "silent & immobile" and played dead during the attack ?
That's probably because she was pretending to be somewhere else.
In her car - safe & asleep.
Sickos like this deserve life in jail. I wish the law everywhere would catch up to what many of us already know. These men have no regard for the lives of half the population and should not be on the streets.