Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan police) arrested a woman who cut a member of the boss of the bar she worked in on Monday in Sant Andreu de la Barca, Barcelona, the Spanish press reported. The woman surrendered to the police station and declared that she was the culprit of the crime, justifying this by the fact that the man forced her to have sex for months, being detained on charges of harming her physical integrity.
Mossos will launch an investigation into possible sexual assault. Until then, the woman will remain in custody pending a court decision. The man was taken to the emergency room at Bellvitge Hospital and is expected to be detained when his health conditions permit.
Both men and women are from Bangladesh and are in their 40s, says Vanguard… They have been working together for about six months since the man decided to open the El Sibarita bar in La Barca and hire a woman as a maid.
According to the woman’s statements to the police, her boss forced her to have sex without consent until she could take it any longer, and on Monday, around 2 a.m., when the man tried to rape her again, he took one big with a kitchen knife and cut off his cock.
After the attack, the man ran to the police station in blood, the woman was nearby, the man was taken to the hospital and detained.
Statistical Database of Europa Press Agency, Epdatashows that Catalonia is the Autonomous Community of Spain with the highest number of reports of sexual abuse in the first quarter of the year: 119, more than double that of Andalusia, with 56 entries, which is second on this list.
As reported violations increased significantly in Spain since 2016, according to Epdata… In the first quarter of this year, 426 complaints were registered. For the same period in 2020, 383 complaints were registered. For comparison, in 2016, 254 complaints were received.
These numbers are in line with the growing trend of reports of various types of sexual violence confirmed in recent years in the country. According to the Spanish Ministry of the Interior’s crime report, last year the number of crimes against sexual freedom and self-determination in Spain increased by 11.3%. Specifically, penetrating sexual assault increased by 10.5%, while other sexual assaults increased by 11.4%.
Epdata also recorded an increase in variations in reports of crimes against sexual freedom – including cases of abuse and sexual assault. Since 2013, the number of complaints has steadily increased. In 2013, the number of disclosures from 8,923 people increased to 15,338 in 2019.
