July 13, 2016

Sexual assault at Pamplona bull-running in Spain




15 arrested for sexual assault at Pamplona bull-running
PROTESTERS WITH CARDS READING "NO IS NO"
 photocredit AFP

Fifteen men have been arrested for rape and sexual assault at Spain's famed San Fermin bull-running festival in the town of Pamplona .

The nine-day festival, which started 6th July and ends on Thursday didn’t bring happiness to some individuals especially women.

It has become common for reports of sexual assaults, including men groping women's breasts at the opening party known as the Chupinazo".


According to Spanish media reports, a 22-year-old French woman filed a complaint with police for rape on Saturday for being attacked in the bathroom of a car park.

A 19-year-old woman told police she had been raped in the early hours of Thursday in the doorway of a building in central Pamplona by five men who filmed the attack with a mobile phone.

people were seen with the festival's traditional red neckerchiefs and white clothes, gathered outside Pamplona city hall on Monday night to protest against the sexual attacks against women.

They carried red signs reading No is no.

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