The 17-year-old was allegedly attacked in a hotel by two men described as an "actor and musician with a long professional career in the south east Asian country"
- 07:27, 29 Jun 2022
- UPDATED09:24, 29 Jun 2022
A British teenager has allegedly been raped on the holiday island of Majorca by two men described as “a famous Vietnamese actor and musician.”
The 17-year-old told police she was attacked at a hotel in Andratx, the south-west of the island, after she met the artists in a nearby restaurant and started socialising with them.
The girl’s aunt is said to have alerted police after being contacted by her relative.
The teenager told officers the men, aged 37 and 42, had made her shower after the alleged rape to eliminate evidence that could incriminate them, reported local newspaper Ultima Hora.
It has described them as an "actor and musician with a long professional career in the south east Asian country."
They were arrested at the unnamed hotel in the early hours of Saturday morning, and have now been released on bail but banned from leaving Spain pending an ongoing criminal probe after appearing before an investigating magistrate in a closed court hearing.
The British teenager is believed to have left the island with her family after ratifying her police statement in front of the same judge.
Ultima Hora says the men and the girl were staying in separate hotels in the municipality of Andratx and got into conversation at a nearby restaurant before she agreed to go to the place where the Vietnamese pair were staying after spending time on the beach with them.
She was examined by doctors at Son Espases Hospital in the Majorcan capital Palma as part of standard protocol before making her police statement.
Police confirmed they had been called to deal with an alleged rape at a hotel in Andratx.
A well-placed source said: “Two Vietnamese nationals were arrested in the earlier hours of Saturday morning and the investigation is ongoing.”
Court officials were not immediately available for comment.
Neither of the two men arrested has yet been named.
It was not clear whether the pair were on holiday in Majorca or had travelled to the island for work reasons.
As well as being banned from leaving Spain they have also been asked to surrender their passports.
Local reports said they declined to answer questions when they appeared before the investigating judge shortly after their arrests.
It is not yet known if they were formally questioned by police before being taken to court.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-teenager-raped-majorca-hotel-27352821
Spanish parliament approves ‘only yes means yes’
consent bill
Sexual assault survivors will no longer have to prove violence
was used against them if passed by Senate
AP in Madrid
Thu 26 May 2022 21.31 BST
Spain’s
parliament has approved a bill that makes consent a key determinant in sexual
assault cases, freeing survivors of having to prove that violence or
intimidation was used against them.
The
bill, popularly known as “Only yes means yes”, seeks
to tackle the nebulous definition of consent in Spanish law. In
the absence of a codified definition, the law had long relied on evidence of
violence, resistance or intimidation to decide whether a criminal sexual act
occurred.
The new
bill defines consent as an explicit expression of a person’s will, making it
clear that silence or passivity do not equal consent. Non-consensual sex can be
considered aggression and subject to prison terms of up to 15 years.
The
change was welcomed by the minister for equality, Irene Montero. “From today,
Spain is a freer, safer country for all women,” she told parliament. “We are
going to swap violence for freedom, we are going to swap fear for desire.”
The
bill had long been championed by the Spain’s leftwing coalition government,
with only the conservative Popular party and the far-right Vox party voting
against it. The draft will now face a vote in the Senate before it can become
law.
The
draft bill includes other measures such as obliging minors who commit sexual
crimes to undergo sex education, gender equality training, and creating a
network of 24-hour crisis centres for survivors of sexual assault and their
family members.
The
legislation traces its roots to the furore caused by a
gang-rape case during the San Fermin bull-running festival in Pamplona in
2016.
Initially,
the five accused in the case were found guilty of sexual abuse but not rape, as
the victim wasn’t deemed to have objected to what was happening. The sentences
prompted widespread protests and calls for Spain to join the dozen other
countries in Europe that
define rape as sex without consent, according to a 2020 analysis by Amnesty
International.
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