The investigating judge in the case of the rape of a minor that took place a year and a half ago in the Les Comes industrial estate in Igualada prosecutes the detainee for attempted murder and sexual assault, according to the newspaper ‘Ara’ and has been able to confirm the ACN, which has also had access to the court brief.
In the text, the magistrate explains that the detainee followed the victim at the exit of a nightclub to a street with little traffic in the industrial estate and approached her by surprise. The judge believes that the man not only wanted to rape the young woman, but also to kill her, and he believes that if he did not succeed, it was because a person found the minor shortly after the events and notified the emergency services.
The judge reports that the events took place around half past six in the morning of November 1, 2021, when the investigated man followed the minor to Pasíses Street in the aforementioned polygon and once there “he attacked her by surprise with the intention of satisfying her libidinous mood”.
After the attack, he left the place, “leaving the minor lying on the ground, stealing the coat she was wearing that night, the dress and the panties.” The young woman was left “abandoned on the ground, unconscious, naked, in a cold, inhospitable place, with little traffic of people and with significant injuries, a consequence of the blows suffered and contemporary in the sexual assault perpetrated.”
In the field of proceedings, the judge explains that the minor stated that she did not remember the facts, and that the detainee denied them. That is why the magistrate builds the route of the alleged attacker based on the images captured by the security cameras in the area and by connecting his mobile phone to the antennas. The same cameras reconstruct the journey of the minor from the nightclub to the site of the attack.
Another indication that the judge takes into consideration is that at the entrance and search of the detainee’s home, a “genetic profile of the minor was found in different objects and clothes that the person under investigation was wearing on the night of the events.” All the evidence is “sufficient” to prosecute the detainee “for the crime of sexual assault and attempted murder.” For the first crime, the Criminal Code provides for penalties of between 6 and 12 years, and for the second, between 20 and 30 years. Finally, the magistrate imposes a bail for pecuniary responsibility of 3,000 euros on the detainee and keeps him in preventive detention.
From Fecasarm, which acts as public prosecutor in the case, Joaquim Boadas was “totally in agreement and satisfied” with the indictment and announced that the entity will request “the most serious penalty” provided for in the Penal Code. He also hoped that, if the detainee’s authorship is finally proven, “the sentence serves as a lesson for the author and as a deterrent to others who may have similar thoughts.”
In addition, Boadas has called for “more dissuasive police presence” in leisure areas, more public lighting, more safe corridors, more public transport “and that all this results in the safety of people who go out at night.” Finally, he demanded “that the nightlife sector not be criminalized” and stressed that the “detainee came from a bottle” and not from any discotheque.
