One complaint for rape and 16 for sexual abuse.
That is the balance in terms of sexual violence of San Fermín this year, the first post-pandemic in which these festivities have been celebrated, which have welcomed more than 400,000 people in Pamplona for eight and a half days.
The mayor, Enrique Maya, in the final balance this Friday, has lamented among everything that happened the 16 complaints of abuse (touching), compared to 10 in 2019, and the sexual assault with penetration that occurred last Saturday night.
In thirteen of those cases, Maya said, "the alleged aggressors have been identified and detained."
In the case of the attack, the aggressor turned himself in to the Foral Police on Wednesday and was released hours later while the investigation proceeds.
Since 2016, when the case of La Manada occurred, media, social, political and police attention has focused on this type of sexist violence that leaves more than 10,000 women victims of sexual crimes in Spain each year, according to the Ministry of the Interior. Inside.
Last Saturday, on one of the days with the most people crowding Pamplona during San Fermín, what was until now the only reported violation of the Navarrese festivities occurred.
In the Mendillorri neighborhood, to the east of the city, a man sexually assaulted a woman.
She filed a complaint.
On Wednesday, the alleged aggressor, from another autonomous community, surrendered to the Foral Police and was released hours later, when the magistrate of the Investigating Court number 3 of the capital decreed that exit, with a restraining order of 200 meters from the victim and the prohibition to communicate with her.
On Monday, it was the Pamplona City Council who confirmed the complaint for aggression.
Its mayor, Enrique Maya, explained that it had been "a sexual assault with penetration."
All the political groups published a joint institutional declaration in which they expressed their "total rejection and condemnation of this sexist aggression," said that document.
A day later, on Tuesday afternoon, the feminist, social and citizen movements of the city gathered in the Plaza del Castillo.
"The response protocol to the attacks is fast and effective," said Iratxe Álvarez, spokesperson for the Women's Platform against Sexist Violence, one of the organizations convening that concentration called for this type of attack on Tuesday.
The feminist associations, the city's supporters' clubs, the mayor of Pamplona, Enrique Maya, and the vice-president of the Regional Government, Javier Remírez, all participated in the event.
In the framework of the festivities, they also have evidence of a dozen complaints for punctures with syringes.
At first it was feared that these people could have been victims of an attempted chemical submission.
However, no will-inhibiting substances or of any other type have been detected in his body, which, says the spokesman for the Foral Police, Mikel Santamaría, "reassures" the authorities.
They do recognize that there were cases of people who felt dizzy after the puncture, so they are waiting for the contrast analyzes that are being carried out in Madrid and that could shed some light on whether or not those syringes contained any substance.
Meanwhile, they continue to investigate to find the culprit or culprits: “All hypotheses are open, since it could be people dedicated to this type of criminal modality, which would have a second phase of sexual assault or robbery with intimidation, until it could be a person with a mental problem or a prank ”, details Santamaría.
For now, it is known that all the punctures have been reported in the urban area and that the victims do not fit a specific profile, but there are "men, women, foreigners, nationals... The cast is very open," he says. .
other crimes
In general, this year's San Fermín festivities have seen a drop, almost by half, in forceful crime.
In fact, as reported by Enrique Maya, the number of complaints handled during the celebrations has decreased by 1.7%, from 2005 in 19, to 1969 this year.
Robberies with force and violence have especially decreased, but thefts have increased slightly, specifically, mobile phone thefts.
The mayor has also referred to the incidents that occurred on Curia Street on July 7, during the procession in honor of San Fermín.
At that moment, a group of people booed and rebuked the municipal corporation shouting "UPN Kanpora" (outside UPN), and even threw an object at the councilman.
For all this, Municipal Police officers had to make a cordon in some sections to separate the members of the corporation from the people who rebuked them.
The altercations left a balance of three municipal agents injured, one of them with a broken nose, and in the following days up to eight people were arrested, of which only the person allegedly responsible for punching the man remains in provisional prison without bail. policeman.
The judge charged him with a crime of public disorder, attack on authority, hate crime and injury.
Her defense has appealed the decision arguing that the detainee defended himself against an alleged prior assault by the agent.
The rest of the detainees have been released, although four of them must appear weekly in court.
In the balance of these parties, the mayor Enrique Maya has assured that "it was an organized attack, it was clear that something was happening, there was a much harsher atmosphere [than in previous years], insults, more pressure towards our group".
As to who may be behind the incidents, Maya reiterates that it is the work of the nationalist left.