A witness who was in the WhatsApp group where the alleged rapists from Castelldefels (Barcelona) bragged about the group sexual assaults they organized after contacting the victims through dating apps confessed to the Mossos d’Esquadra that abandoned him for fear of police reprisalsaccording to volume VII of the summary of the case, to which Efe has had access.
The summary contains the statements made before the Mossos d’Esquadra during the phase of the police investigation by friends of the accused, as witnesses, who were part of the WhatsApp group where the alleged perpetrators spoke of the violations, called K-Team.
The witness explained to the regional police on December 19 that he decided to leave the group in March “to avoid possible problems with the police or of a judicial nature”, since until the beginning of 2022 some conversations were published that talked about the complaint of a girl against several of the alleged rapists.
The witness, who claims to be a friend of some of the alleged perpetrators, noted in his statement that the WhatsApp group had come to be posted profile photo an image of the group of rapists from La Manadawho sexually assaulted a young woman in Pamplona (Navarra) during the 2016 Sanfermines, and who at that time made jokes “until they really assessed the possible consequences.”
In addition, it corroborated the police indications that two of the members of the group were the ones who got girls who participated in these meetings through dating applications such as Tinder or Badoo, or in person.
On December 22, the examining magistrate of Gavà (Barcelona) sent the five alleged perpetrators to prison without bailaccused of orchestrating in an organized way rapes in groups of girls whom they captured through a dating application, attacks that they later boasted about in the WhatsApp group.
The five men are credited in principle the rape of three girls in the spring of 2021 in the apartment in Castelldefels where one of them lived, although both the judge handling the case and the Mossos d’Esquadra believe that there is more victims who have not been identified, according to the analysis of the mobile phones of the defendants, from which hundreds of messages have been stolen, which have been key to the police investigation.
In the messages of the K-Team group, which appear in the prison order and in the summary of the case, the alleged rapists They flaunted their actions against these womenwhich the investigating judge described as “sexual predation”, and where they mocked their victims.
The defendants appealed against the judge’s prison order, but the Barcelona Court decided keep suspected rapists in prison for flight risk and to protect the victims, after verifying that the defendants “groped” them after assaulting them to find out their reaction and if they would have consequences.
