The Municipal Police of Pamplona investigates a sexual assault that was denounced on the night of this Friday on the fifth day of the Sanfermines. At the moment, the information provided by the authorities is that there has been still no arrest related to this case and that the facts took place in a private home of the capital. This is, until now, the first aggression of the high intensity calls that has been registered since San Fermín began; which adds to the seven of low intensity – – that are counted until this Saturday and in which there have been, for the moment, eight detainees.
The City Council of Pamplona has shown its “total rejection and condemnation” in this case of sexual violence and, in a statement approved this Sunday by the Board of Spokespersons of the Consistory, it also includes the “absolute support and solidarity with the woman and her environment, in addition to maximum respect to preserve their rights and intimacy.”
In these cases, the Consistory has maintained a clear policy for several years and is to tell what has happened, whatever the intensity of aggression; A line of work is included within the citizen and institutional response protocol, which includes three action scenarios ,.
The first corresponds to the “aggressions of slight intensity”, which are all the related “to touch, with harassment”, Basabe defined. In these cases, the City Council communicates it to the Civil Protection Board, which meets daily and collects it in the consequent press release. The second of the scenarios are sexual aggressions with or without penetration, for which the Consistory delegates the citizen and institutional response to the feminist movement, which conveys a public act of complaint.
And there is a third assumption that has not occurred since this protocol was launched eight years ago, in 2017 ,. They are femicides or sexual aggressions of special gravity. The document, in this case, determines that it is the City Council that must lead the answer.
On this last known case, in that document approved by the Board of Spokespersons this Sunday, the Consistory urges society to change the cultural model in which the aggressor is protected and the women are blamed and the men are claimed “an active commitment to end all the types of aggressions and violence suffered by women and for working in achieving real equality in our society”.
After inviting citizens to be active against violence and sexist aggressions and insist on the right of women to decide on their relationships, their body and sexuality, it also shows its adherence to the communications and calls that are made in the municipality and the citizens are located to participate in the protest acts that convene the feminist movement, which, for this case, will be this Sunday at 9:00 p.m.
The telephone 016 serves the victims of sexist violence, their families and their surroundings 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in 53 different languages. The number is not registered on the telephone bill, but you have to erase the device call. You can also contact via email and by WhatsApp in the number 600 000 016. The minors can go to the telephone of the Anar 900 20 20 10. If it is an emergency situation, the telephones of the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062) can be called at 112 OA. And in case of not being able to call, the alertcops application can be used, from which an alert signal to the police with geolocation is sent.
