A 20-year-old young woman suffered a sexual assault after 3:30 a.m. on Sunday in the vicinity of the Lleida bus station. The woman was attended to by the Mossos d'Esquadra after reporting what happened to her friends, who were the ones who alerted the police.
The sequence leaves an immediate contrast in a usual transit area of the city. Although last year 253 complaints for sexual assault were registered in the regions of Lleida, with an average of five cases per week, in this case the victim decided not to file a complaint after giving a statement to the agents.
The victim recounted the events after notifying her group of friends
The Mossos d'Esquadra activated the protocol for victims of gender violence once they located the young woman and attended to her for the verbally reported assault. During that action, the agents took her statement about what happened in the area of the bus station.
After 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, the assault occurred in the vicinity of that facility, one of the busiest mobility points in Lleida during the night and early morning. The alert did not come directly from the victim to the police, but through her friends.
The regions of Lleida closed the year with 253 complaints and 118 arrests
The figure registered last year in the entirety of the regions of Lleida reflects 253 complaints for sexual assault in one year, which places the average at five cases per week. That volume of complaints coexisted with a smaller number of arrests in the same period.
In parallel, the Mossos d'Esquadra carried out 118 arrests for sexual assault crimes in that same territorial area. The difference between both records leaves two distinct levels, that of the reported incidents and that of the police actions that ended with an arrest.
The assault known this Sunday is added to that annual balance in a context where not all cases end up formalized at the police station. On this occasion, the young woman did explain what happened to the agents, but chose not to file a complaint.
The police balance sheet for the last year in the regions of Lleida closed with 118 arrests for sexual assault compared to 253 complaints registered in the same period.