Spain Tourist Raped in India: Latest News and Updates on the Shocking Incident

2024-03-02 18:43:17
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― “Something has happened to us that we wouldn’t wish on anyone,” she says.

— “They attacked us in the store, they beat us, they put a knife to our necks, they were going to kill me, and Fernanda was raped by seven, seven guys, sons of bitches,” he explains.

She and her husband are two Spaniards who traveled the world on motorcycles. From Sri Lanka, in Armenia, from Iran, the couple shared images and photos of their travels and adventures. But this Friday night, the trip was cut short in a remote region of India, one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women.

They themselves were the ones who uploaded a video at dawn explaining that some strangers had attacked them when they were sleeping in the tent that sheltered them from the outside. “I started receiving hosts, they started throwing stones at us…” he continues.

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They report that she has been beaten and raped by seven men and the case is in the hands of the police, who have asked them to remove the video from social networks so as not to hinder the investigation. In the last communication they uploaded to Instagram, they stated that after spending the night in a hospital near the area where they were when the attack occurred, they had been transferred about 60 or 70 kilometers to perform DNA tests in the district of Dumka.

The couple, who have been traveling for several months to tour the country from the far south, had set up a tent in the Dumka district, a remote area in the state of Jharkhand, near a police station, to spend the night when a group of men attacked them and started throwing stones at them. She, a Spanish citizen of Brazilian origin, who appears in the recording, with blows to her face, indicated that they were also robbed by the men who assaulted her, although she assures: “We had very little, their real motive was to rape me.”

They rape a Spanish tourist in India

The case is now in the hands of the police, but outrage has grown throughout the day as the news became known. Three of the alleged seven attackers have already been arrested and the investigation is still ongoing in the country considered the most dangerous for women in the world, according to a document from the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

In that survey, carried out in 2018, the Foundation concluded that the risk of sexual violence (and slavery) that women in India endure every day was the highest in the world. Countries such as war-torn Afghanistan and Syria ranked second and third in the survey of about 550 women’s issues experts, followed by Somalia and Saudi Arabia.

The truth is that the country has experienced several scandals in recent years that have shaken the international community and have taken a toll on a society with a high tolerance for sexual violence and abuse of women.

In the collective memory there will always be the memory of the brutal sexual assault of a young 23-year-old physical therapist that sparked massive protests that forced the authorities to modify the laws.

“India has shown complete contempt and disrespect towards women…rape, marital rape, sexual assault and harassment, female infanticide has not decreased,” Manjunath Gangadhara, an official, said at the time the report was published. of the state government of Karnataka.

The woman and her husband had been traveling through India for months and on networks like X (formerly Twitter), users are asking for justice; From India, many wonder if this is the welcome message for tourists (“Atithi Devo Bhava”) that they want to send to the world and warn about how unsafe the country continues to be for women.

The National Commission for Women (NCW), a government body in India, condemned “the brutal rape” in a statement in which it said that, according to its reports, between eight and ten people participated in the rape. crime. The organization asked on networks to speed up the investigation.

A group of parliamentarians has called for a special debate on the case and on the use of investigative and security agencies. ”The incident has not only embarrassed Jharkhand but the entire country. The police station in charge is trying to cover up the matter. The culprits are receiving political patronage. I demand that an investigation committee be established and strict punishments be imposed,” opposition legislator Amit Mandal said in the parliamentary session.

India’s latest crime report, which is for 2022, recorded 31,500 rape cases in that year alone, approximately 86 per day. However, analysts and civil organizations consider these numbers to be far below the reality of this country, which excludes and punishes women even for reporting, recalls the EFE Agency.

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