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On July 6th, a friend and I arrived in Pamplona.
We went to Pamplona's old quarter.
Olé, olé, olé, olé
Olé, olé
Olé, olé, olé, olé
Olé, olé
Women of Pamplona!
Men of Pamplona!
Viva San Fermín!
Viva!
Viva San Fermín!
Gora!
My friend went back to the car because he was tired.
I sat down on a bench and a guy sitting there said,
"Wow, this is some party for Sanfermines. "
Then he asked, "Did you come on your own?"
You didn't resist or try to get away?
No.
I was completely in shock.
I just wanted it to be over,
so I closed my eyes to block everything out.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that rather than being frozen,
what then started were consensual sexual relations
between the six of you?
No.
I do believe you! I do believe you!
The worst part wasn't what I lived through,
but everything that happened after.
I never could've imagined what would happen.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
PAMPLONA, NAVARRE, SPAIN
JULY 7TH, 2016
THIS FILM INCLUDES AUDIO TESTIMONIES VOICED BY ACTORS AND ACTRESSES.
THEY ARE VERBATIM EXCERPTS FROM OFFICIAL STATEMENTS,
INTERVIEWS, AND LETTERS THAT HAVE BEEN EDITED FOR CLARITY.
THE NAMES OF THE VICTIM-SURVIVORS HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THEIR ANONYMITY.
That night, I was patrolling Pamplona's old quarter on foot.
OFFICER 455 PAMPLONA POLICE
That's when I got a call from dispatch.
Hello?
We have a girl here who told us she was sexually assaulted by four guys,
and we want to report it.
Okay, we'll report it.
SECURITY CAMERA 3:40 A. M.
I started running.
The girl was crying and crying.
So I talked to her.
She said she'd been sexually assaulted.
Her voice was shaky
because she was in shock.
She said it had been four men.
I asked what they were wearing.
She said they were dressed for the festival.
I thought, "My God. "
"It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. "
EMERGENCY ROOM
They took me to the hospital.
We waited there for the forensic team.
She was so scared.
She held on to my arm tightly and asked me not to leave her alone.
To stay with her.
Then they put me on a table and gave me pills.
The morning-after pill and others for STDs and HIV.
She was saying, "How will I tell my mother?"
"How will I tell her about this?"
We went to the lobby where the victim claimed the crime took place.
We went into a very claustrophobic, small area.
There was a door that would have blocked any sound.
It would have muffled any screams.
DEPUTY INSPECTOR PAMPLONA POLICE
We had no doubt that there had been a very serious sexual assault.
A colleague called me and said,
"This happened. "
Jesus, it hasn't even been 24 hours since the festival started.
PLATFORM AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
And there's already been a violent assault.
This happened in a city that is highly desensitized to sexual assaults.
PAMPLONA FREE OF GENDER-BASED ASSAULT
HARASSMENT IS NOT FLIRTING. DON'T CROSS THE LINE!
DON'T RAPE
NO MEANS NO!
It was concerning.
That in spite of everything we'd done, everything we'd worked so hard for,
we couldn't prevent it.
Those of us who had experienced very serious aggression
knew what we were in for.
Especially her.
Come on, let's go! Go, go, go! Let's go!
I found out over text.
I have a daughter too, who, just like that girl,
was out in the streets of Pamplona.
JOSEBA ASIRON MAYOR OF PAMPLONA, 2015-2019
Just like her.
A policewoman sat in front of those cameras
and just started to look and look.
They passed on a list of features.
Four men from Sevilla.
HEAD COMMISSIONER
Between 20 and 25 years old,
between five foot four and five foot seven.
Tattoos on their stomachs.
Three of them had beards.
She saw some people who could be a match.
For a few seconds.
PAMPLONA MUNICIPAL POLICE
With short, light brown hair.
When we went inside, four of them surrounded me
and threw me to the ground.
I… I closed my eyes and submitted.
Whoo!
REGIONAL POLICE
At 8:20 in the morning, an officer informed us
that there were four young men with an Andalusian accent
next to a barrier.
Who could be from Seville.
They all had beards.
They were indeed from Seville.
One of them said he was a Civil Guard officer.
He was especially calm and helpful.
It was jarring.
OFFICER 829
He said there'd been a fifth person in their group,
but they didn't know where he was.
The mismatch was that there weren't four, but five guys.
Only one had letters tattooed on his stomach.
And, in the meantime, we had identified two more groups of young men.
Because of all this, it was decided to let them go.
And we immediately tried to find the vehicle.
Guerrero, the Civil Guard officer,
said they had come to Pamplona
in a gold-colored Fiat Bravo.
We decided to locate it in case the fifth person was there
so we could connect the dots.
We searched the neighborhoods.
We had this dark cloud hanging over us
because something terrible had happened.
We were all very nervous.
We found it.
The four of them showed up.
Shortly after, the unidentified fifth one arrived.
That's when we saw the tattoo,
which we hadn't seen at the bullring.
We arrested all of them.
Because it could have been any of them, or all five.
The victim might not have known how many people were with her.
I was just relaxing…
PROSECUTOR
…enjoying a drink, as you do on July 7th,
when a colleague called me. He told me about what had happened.
I thought to myself, "God, five?"
And not one of them stopped to say, "What are you doing?"
"What are we doing?" That's what's so shocking.
Their phones were confiscated.
Group chats were discovered that were relevant to the investigation.
One of the chats was called "the wolf pack. "
CABEZUELO - THE POWER OF THE WOLF LIES IN THE PACK, MAN
FRIEND 1 - WE HAVE TO GET CHLOROFORM, ROPES, ROOFIES…
IF WE ALL WANT TO BE ABLE TO RAPE
PRENDA - GOOD MORNING
THREE AND A HALF HOURS AFTER THE CRIME
THE FIVE OF US FUCKING ONE CHICK
WHAT A FUCKING AMAZING TRIP
PRENDA - THERE'S A VIDEO
A few hours went by.
So, I went and met with the girl.
ANA FERNÁNDEZ SOCIAL WORKER
Who has a name. I mean, she's a person.
And I took her to an apartment.
I hadn't slept for hours.
I had the same clothes on as when I arrived in Pamplona.
I showered.
I suggested calling her parents.
She called them, but she couldn't do it.
She froze and started crying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. "
And, ultimately, I ended up talking to the mother for a bit.
They'd heard about this because it had been on TV.
They thought, "Could it be our daughter? Could it be her?"
Of course, they found out that it was. It was their daughter.
We begin with the news that has rocked the start of the San Fermín festival.
What I know, but from unconfirmed sources, is that five have been arrested.
For the same incident?
Yes, related to the sexual assault.
No bail for five men accused of sexually assaulting a woman.
A bad start for a festival
that made preventing sexual assault a priority.
We're always prepared and ready,
with the hope that we don't have to take to the streets.
But if something does happen, we know how to organize a response.
And we activate the sexual assault protocol.
JOIN THE PROTEST AT CITY HALL AT 21:00
AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT AT SAN FERMÍN!
RALLY TODAY. BE THERE. SPREAD THE WORD. #SANFERMIN2016 #VIOLENCEAGAINSTWOMEN
No sexual assault can go without response!
It was very hot that day.
I remember a bead of sweat running down my back.
I remember it perfectly.
And I remember being really angry.
These acts fill us with rage and anger.
And we want to extend our warmest embrace to the woman who suffered this assault.
This was after 2008, when Nagore Laffage was murdered,
also on July 7th.
EIGHT YEARS EARLIER
She is Nagore Laffage Casasola, age 20.
She was killed by José Diego Yllanes.
He was a psychiatric resident
at the hospital where Nagore had her nursing internship.
When she refused to have sex with him, he beat her to death.
Let there be justice, please. Let there be justice.
That's all.
July 7th is a very painful day for me.
I was at home when I suddenly got a call from Pamplona…
NAGORE'S MOTHER
…saying this had happened to the girl.
I remember that I got out of bed
and went to the rally.
To give support because they supported me.
They stood by me and I had to be there.
To support that girl.
When I was assigned the case, I automatically thought of Nagore's case.
LAWYER FOR THE CITY
Immediately.
It was a case I had handled on behalf of the city of Pamplona.
It's still a thorn in my side because I don't think justice was served.
NO MEANS NO!
Nagore's case made us realize what was happening to us.
NO MEANS NO!
And that we had to stop it somehow.
We will continue to fight until things change.
AGUSTÍN MARTÍNEZ BECERRA DEFENSE LAWYER
How are they doing?
I've only just seen my clients and talked to them.
They're calm, they're okay. All we ask is for a presumption of innocence.
Well, there is a video, right?
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but that's obviously part of the proceedings.
When we see it, we'll make a statement.
Do they admit there was a sexual encounter?
I can't answer that.
We'll see in due course.
I don't remember that time.
I don't remember where one day ended and another began.
I was in a complete state of shock.
I met with her father at City Hall.
He was devastated when he came in.
Just completely destroyed.
He asked me, "Can you promise that the city will see this through?"
He could already guess that not only would the perpetrators be on trial,
but his daughter would be as well.
The 2016 Sanfermines festival has ended.
♪ January 1st, February 2nd, March 3rd, April 4th ♪
♪ May 5th, June 6th July 7th, San Fermín ♪
It's easy to identify with the victim of the festival
because we've all been to parties in our hometowns.
♪ We're going To Pamplona with our stockings on… ♪
We've all gotten drunk and hooked up.
She was just a college girl, the same age as us,
and all she did was go party.
That's why we reacted the way we did.
But we never even thought the story would get as big as it became.
ONE MONTH AFTER THE CRIME
REGIONAL POLICE
PABLO DE LA FUENTE, POLICE OFFICER NAVARRE REGIONAL POLICE
A phone might have 35,000 files.
One of those might be a WhatsApp file, which could have 135,000 messages.
It's about isolating everyone's behavior
and comparing that to the videos in order to identify who everybody is.
I dug into their lives.
It was like I traveled with them once they left Seville.
I knew their expressions.
I knew everything.
JOURNALIST
As the investigation continued,
we started to find out more and more about them.
Four of them were childhood friends
and the fifth joined them on this trip.
One of them was in the Civil Guard's police academy,
about to begin active duty.
Cabezuelo's in the military.
Prenda had been arrested for some soccer-related incidents.
Escudero
was a barber.
And Boza was the fifth. He was Prenda's friend who joined later.
They're like a family.
What happens in the group stays in the group.
They behave as a pack.
COURTHOUSE
DEFENDANTS' STATEMENTS
-Good morning. -Good morning.
Everyone in this country should know that a defendant
has the right to lie in court.
There's a right to not tell the truth.
Witnesses are required to tell the truth but the defendants are not.
We were talking about soccer and she said, "You're so hot. "
"I've never been with someone from Seville. "
So I said, "There aren't just two of us, there's five. "
She said, "I can take two or five. "
"I'll take you both or all five. "
Those statements were meant to justify everything.
To say that it was the victim who incited and encouraged and facilitated
and wanted the situation,
even though she never mentioned five people.
We said, "You can't handle all five. "
She goes, "I'm serious, I can. "
She always said four.
So, she was in charge of the situation?
Yes.
She was in charge the whole time and told us where she wanted us.
The entire time, she was the one calling the shots.
She was enjoying it.
She probably enjoyed it more than I did.
Why do you think she reported it if everything was consensual?
I really don't know.
Maybe it's how we left.
Honestly, I think it hurt her pride.
Maybe if we took her out for a beer, all this wouldn't have happened.
Why did you record it?
Well, to watch the recording as if we were watching a porno.
Yeah, to watch ourselves in one.
I didn't want to watch it.
But the judge told me, "Watch the video and then call me. "
COMMISSIONER PAMPLONA POLICE
I watched the video and I called the judge.
He asked me, "What do you think?"
And we both thought the same thing.
This wasn't the first time that they had done this.
On the phones, we discovered something
that changed the course of the investigation.
Two videos…
showing a girl in the back of a vehicle…
completely unconscious.
This is Pozoblanco. And this is the wolf pack.
They're fondling her while bragging about their behavior.
And we don't know who she is. You can't see her face.
I looked for any detail that could help me identify her.
It was very difficult. We didn't expect to solve it.
Because all we had was a dress.
I found some location metadata.
Since there were two videos,
I worked out that the car was moving and heading somewhere.
They appeared to be returning from partying.
So I searched for festivals or fairs in the area.
It came up blank.
I went deeper into the metadata
and found out there was another date of when the video was taken.
It matched a festival date.
TORRECAMPO, CÓRDOBA MAY 1ST, 2016
I was 23 years old and very rebellious.
I liked going out.
We met up with these guys.
There was a police officer from Seville who was stationed there.
There was some flirting, I was single. But that was it, nothing more.
I remember it was during the day.
And that's all. One of them offered me a ride.
The military guy.
I analyzed more than 1,000 photos of the Torrecampo festival.
I saw a stand where the suspects were photographed.
And in only one of the photos,
there was a girl who matched the girl in the dress.
She could be the victim.
I looked deeper into the photo. It had a lot of likes.
So I went through each profile that had liked it.
I found one I thought could be hers.
So I went for it.
It was early in September when a policeman called me.
He said, "Can I send you a still from a video?"
And it was me.
It was me.
She broke down and said to me, "I knew it. "
"No one believed me. "
It sickened me the way they mock me.
Molestation is one thing,
but making fun of it?
She remembered waking up in the back of a car.
Half naked.
He had ordered her to perform a sexual act.
She refused.
He hit me.
He threw me out of the car and yelled, "Slut. "
When I took off my dress, I found on my inner thigh…
I found an enormous bruise.
I thought,
"They must've drugged me. "
"He might've even raped me and I wouldn't know. "
PRENDA FORWARDED
BOZA - MY GOD WHAT DID YOU GIVE THAT GIRL? BURUNDANGA?
COOL
At that time, our laws stated that if someone drugs you
or gets you drunk until you pass out and lose control,
there is no sexual assault.
That's called sexual abuse.
It doesn't matter if there's penetration or not.
FRIEND 2 - IS SHE DEAD OR WHAT?
PRENDA - HE JUST FUCKED SLEEPING BEAUTY
So if a woman is drugged and raped by 40 men, it isn't rape?
No.
To be sexual assault, there needs to be violence and intimidation.
I kept my tights, I kept my dress.
I kept everything.
The police asked if I would report it. And I said,
"Of course I'm going to report it. "
We delivered the report.
Not 20 minutes had gone by before all the details were in the press.
Another unexpected twist for the defense.
Four of the five defendants allegedly abused another young woman.
We're dealing with a gang of sexual predators.
They think they have impunity
because they've done this before and nobody's reported them.
A CRIMINAL GANG DEDICATED TO RAPING WOMEN
HOW MANY WOMEN HAVE THEY RAPED?
WE HAVE TO MEMORIZE THE FACES OF THESE SADISTIC RAPISTS
A year passed before the trial.
And during that year,
Agustín Martínez Becerra, one of the defense lawyers,
knew he had to bring the fight to the media
because he knew he had to fight public opinion.
The images are open to interpretation.
Not a single act of violence appears in the images.
We don't see anything that shows this was rape.
He knows that by being there…
JOURNALIST
…he can sow a seed of doubt and let it grow.
Do you think the victim is lying?
I'm convinced she is.
You think she's lying?
But the psychologists don't.
There is no stereotype, throughout history,
that's been more persistent than that of women as liars.
As manipulative.
All I can tell you is that the girl is not telling the truth.
I AGREE WITH THE LAWYER… THESE PEOPLE ARE INNOCENT…
LAWYER AGUSTÍN MARTÍNEZ IS RIGHT. THERE'S BEEN ENOUGH MANIPULATION.
There's six victims in this situation.
Whether they're guilty or she's guilty, there are six victims.
The wolf pack's lawyer got what he wanted,
for us to focus on the victim rather than the defendants.
Agustín Martínez, Prenda's lawyer. Good morning.
-Good morning, Agustín. -Good morning.
-Good evening, Agustín. -Good evening.
For a defense lawyer to be given such a large platform…
It doesn't make sense.
Whenever I went out, I was always thinking about it.
I'd be at a party and start crying.
Nightmares, sleepless nights.
Having to take pills.
When we first met face to face, it was like…
IZASKUN GARTZARON SUPPORT OFFICE FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME
She was just a child. Just a kid.
She was not doing well at all.
I watched the news
because I needed to find an answer for everything that had happened.
Sometimes I'd be crying until 6:00 in the morning.
Because I couldn't stop.
SHE'S LYING
SINCE WHEN DOES A RESPECTABLE WOMAN GO INTO A DARK CORNER WITH FIVE STRANGERS?
For the very first time on TV,
we're about to hear from one of the young men's family members.
-Do you believe your cousin is innocent? -Yes, of course.
I want everyone to know that I don't care
what awful things they write about my brother and his friends
because we know for sure they're innocent.
They positioned themselves as martyrs in this trial.
THEY'RE ONLY IN PRISON BECAUSE OF SOCIAL PRESSURES
#MAINSTREAMLYNCHING #NATIONALSHAME
MAYBE THEY SHOULD INVESTIGATE THE WOMAN
I got used to thinking I'd be kidnapped.
I told my mother and my friends,
"If I suddenly disappear, that's why. "
I think her parents felt like they were losing her.
The mother would say, "We don't recognize her. "
"I don't know if she can take it. "
"I don't know what her breaking point is. "
Women of Pamplona!
Men of Pamplona!
Viva San Fermín!
Viva!
Viva San Fermín!
I'd always been a good student.
But I couldn't focus.
So I quit.
The media didn't want to talk about sexual violence or assaults.
And instead of talking about why this happened,
they turned the whole case into a circus.
A neighbor was heading into number five.
The young men took advantage and snuck into the building.
They analyzed every detail of Prenda's handwriting.
The handwriting indicates that Prenda was very anxious writing this.
-Really? -Yes.
It's the wolf pack's code.
The media created a spectacle that polarized the public.
You either believed her or you believed them.
Sexism kills so many people in this country.
And the campaigns to lynch these people who are being tried in court are terrible.
You are judging this lady three times over.
-The hypocrisy is unbelievable. -A jury is judging her.
Do you think it was rape or consensual sex?
Vote here for rape, here for consensual sex.
This is crazy!
Don't you think this is completely sexist?
…the importance of this audio as the trial approaches.
There's no proof!
SIXTEEN MONTHS AFTER THE CRIME
They decided to hold the trial behind closed doors,
but with some extra precautions that I'd never heard of before.
They covered the windows.
But we could tell the restrictions wouldn't be enough.
Good morning.
Agustín.
Good morning.
We'll talk about that in court, but not now.
My job is to avoid the press if they're in front of the courthouse.
We're not American prosecutors who talk to the press about the case.
That's not how we do things.
So I went through the back
because I wasn't going to make a statement.
Will your clients plead not guilty?
Yes, of course.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
Honestly, the media didn't pay much attention to me.
So I went pretty unnoticed.
JESÚS PÉREZ AND JUAN CANALES DEFENSE LAWYERS
BACAICOA AND MORÁN VICTIM'S LAWYERS
No statements right now.
Exactly one month before the trial,
the "Me Too" movement broke out in the United States.
Everyone was talking about it.
This was the trial that marked a turning point
for how we treat and understand sexual violence in Spain.
Part of our job is escorting the victims.
It was more complicated in this case
due to the harassment she received from all sides.
We picked her up and changed cars.
We made sure we weren't followed.
We're talking about a young person in a situation she doesn't want to be in.
We went through the back to protect her from the cameras.
COURTROOM 102
When I saw her going in alone,
I don't think she was aware of what was coming.
It's a hostile environment. Facing three judges dressed in black.
It's not easy.
On July 6th, a friend and I arrived in Pamplona.
I sat on a bench and a guy was sitting there.
He asked, "Did you come on your own?"
And I said, "No, no. I came with a friend, but she's sleeping in the car. "
And just like that, he was laughing and talking about soccer.
He was with his friends.
I told them I was going to rest in the car.
And they said, "Okay, we'll go with you. "
We went to a hotel.
I heard one of them give an employee a number and a name.
And the guy from the hotel said, "You don't have a room. "
SECURITY CAMERA 3:07 A. M.
The guy I'd been walking with the whole time
put his arm around my shoulder and around my hips.
And I was starting to feel a bit uncomfortable.
Then they kind of veered off to the left, towards a doorway.
One of them came closer to kiss me.
And I didn't lean back.
I thought it was just going to be a kiss and that's it.
While we were kissing, one of them said, "Let's go, let's go. "
PROSECUTOR
You said two of them grabbed you and pushed you through a doorway.
Yes.
One of them was grabbing my waist and pulling down my leggings.
I closed my eyes.
And whenever I opened them, all I could see were tattoos
and skin.
All I could hear was the odd laugh here and there.
And I remember one of them saying, "Dude, dude, it's my turn. "
I was just completely in shock.
I wanted it to be over. I closed my eyes to make it all go away.
To be over quicker.
What do so many women, thousands of women, do every day?
Exactly that.
Succumb. Get it over with as quickly as possible,
and, in many cases, never tell anyone about it.
SECURITY CAMERA 3:27 A. M.
They left one by one.
I got dressed.
And then I realized they stole my phone.
I started crying.
I was crying really hard.
And I sat down on a bench.
I was devastated.
A couple came up to me and said,
"Calm down, don't cry. What happened?"
To conclude, did you at any point consent to what happened?
No.
We were sitting with the family in an adjacent room.
Her parents and aunt were having a very difficult time.
To sit there for hours without knowing how it's going
or how she's doing.
At any point did you hear them say that they wanted to get a hotel room?
Specifically, a room "to fuck in"?
No.
But I figured they'd be looking for a room.
Four people sleeping in a car would be uncomfortable.
Is it not also true, I repeat,
that you were already engaged in foreplay, kissing, as you said,
while all of you were waiting to get into the lobby?
No.
We have preconceived ideas about many things.
Among them is the idea of how a victim should behave.
What do you expect? You expect a victim to be crying, falling apart.
But she was a 20-year-old girl. Young, likable, outgoing.
So how does she act during the trial? The way she is.
Allow me to digress, but is that how you usually sit?
Excuse me? It's the most comfortable.
Maybe it's not the best way for me to sit right now.
Okay. When the sexual relations began,
were you, if I may ask, aroused?
I don't remember, no, I don't know.
I'd been kissing one of them, but I wasn't that into it.
If I understand correctly,
you were sufficiently lubricated to maintain sexual relations.
Victims get questioned.
"Why did she go? Why did she kiss him?"
Nagore went to his house.
And there were people who asked me,
"But why did she go?" Because she wanted to.
That doesn't give them the right to kill you.
But you didn't resist or try to run away?
No.
Why didn't Nagore just give in? She would be alive.
EIGHT YEARS EARLIER IN THE SAME COURTROOM
Good morning. You're Mrs. Asun Casasola Pardo, Nagore's mother?
During Nagore's case, the judge asked the jury
if they wanted to ask me any questions.
Does the jury have any questions?
They're asking if Nagore was a flirt.
That's what the jury asked me.
Who were they judging in that room?
In what way did you indicate to them
that you were in a state of shock
and that you hadn't consented to sexual intercourse?
I didn't talk. I didn't do anything.
I submitted and kept my eyes closed.
In any case,
you clearly did not suffer any pain during the episode.
No, I'm not making a statement.
Are you happy with how her statement went?
Look at my face.
There was consent.
Correct.
No, no. If she didn't say, "Yes, " there wasn't consent.
If she said, "Yes, " then changed her mind, it's over.
It's not so clear-cut. We should know more about her.
A private detective's report discredited the young woman
and has turned the case upside down.
It provides proof she wasn't affected by the alleged incident.
Those detectives had followed her to her town's swimming pool.
They photographed her at a restaurant having dinner with her family.
Not just at home, at school, in her everyday life,
but they also went through her social media.
I submitted just one picture
that the victim posted on Instagram very recently.
WHATEVER YOU DO, DROP YOUR PANTIES
It's a T-shirt with a quote from a TV show, Super Shore,
that my friends and I wore that summer.
How can one photo that I post on Instagram
be used to judge whether I've been assaulted or not?
I didn't want anyone connecting me to the case
because I never identified myself.
I wasn't going to post myself crying so everyone could ask,
"What happened to her?"
I carried on like normal. And normal is uploading party photos.
I had the feeling that we were in a generational debate.
It was basically 60-year-olds judging what 20-year-olds were doing.
The same judge who accepted the private detective's report
about the victim's life after the incident
has rejected messages the suspects sent each other days before the incident.
Man, wouldn't it be great if all five of us
fucked a fat girl together at San Fermín?
I much prefer that over fucking some hottie on my own.
COURTHOUSE
The court only allowed the WhatsApp messages
sent on the night of the incident.
…in this proceeding, so that they can't say later on
that a constitutional right had been violated
which could lead to an annulment.
I DO BELIEVE YOU, SISTER
I DO BELIEVE YOU!
SISTER, I DO BELIEVE YOU
So we decided to hold a rally for the girl
because we thought, "Damn, what must she be going through?"
We refused to let her go through this.
We put on the permit that it was an urgent request
and that about 2,000 people would be there.
SISTER, I DO BELIEVE YOU
I remember being on the subway
and seeing a lot of very young people carrying signs.
No means no! Anything else is rape!
I do believe you!
I do believe you! I do believe you!
The police told me,
"There's 20,000 people here and there's even more coming. "
I do believe you! I do believe you!
No means no! Anything else is rape!
SISTER, I DO BELIEVE YOU
I turned to my friend and said,
"I can't be the one who organized this rally. "
"I'm going to get in trouble. "
Don't just watch us! Join us!
It was a small street. We couldn't stay there.
Then some older ladies arrived,
and they said, "In the '70s, we did something called feminist pushes. "
"When there were too many of us, we kept pushing forward. "
"No permits. "
The case was yet another drop in a much larger river.
THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED CASE #IBELIEVEYOU
A rally that started just after 7:30 this evening
is protesting the latest convictions related to sexual offenses.
The court acquitted them as she had intended to be sexually used
by her attackers.
The court found that she had not resisted.
One of the most famous cases of sexual assault
was when it was determined
that the victim's miniskirt provoked the accused.
Three families will never be the same after November 13th.
Three teenagers were brutally murdered
after being tortured and raped.
57 WOMEN MURDERED
JUSTICE! SISTER, I DO BELIEVE YOU
Nineteen-year-old Rocío Wanninkhof
disappeared on her way back home in Cala de Mijas.
The body found yesterday is that of a young girl, Sonia Carabantes.
Her body was partially naked.
Sandra was raped, run over, and burned alive.
Police in Seville are investigating the disappearance
of 17-year-old Marta del Castillo.
The search is still on for Diana,
an 18-year-old girl from Madrid.
She went out with her friends and never came home.
No one here reacts unless you're dead.
No one. No journalists, no judges, no police. No one.
I do believe you! I do believe you!
ON MY WAY HOME I WANT TO BE FREE, NOT BRAVE
This must stop now. And if they won't stop it, we will.
Here we are! We don't rape! Here we are! We don't rape!
There was a shared sense of why we were there
and that it was important.
It was a message for her and for all women.
It could be any of us.
The videos last 96 seconds.
All we had to prove was what happened in that one minute and thirty-six seconds.
Obviously, a lot more happened that night than what's come to light.
What's in the videos?
They're videos…
of five people treating a woman like an object.
The victim appears trapped.
Huddled, frightened, her eyes are closed.
She doesn't say a single word.
Nothing. Not one.
Whereas the interaction between the men is obvious.
When addressing the victim, they use commands.
And they talk about taking turns.
You sense the utter contempt they have for her.
The laughter.
I see a woman in a state of complete submission.
Controlled, seized, restrained.
At one point, the victim groans.
And one of them says, "Dude, this isn't funny. "
Well, at least one of them seemed displeased
with the overall performance.
And just like that, the recording was over.
They shocked me, yes. Definitely.
Please stand on this mark.
I haven't spoken before.
DEFENSE LAWYER
As you're aware, we haven't spoken to the press.
But for the first time, because I think it's important,
I want to tell you that today, it's been proven, 100 percent,
at least, that's how we understand it,
that the sex was entirely consensual.
This, according to our two experts, one of whom watched the videos.
The fact that anyone could view this as sex
between six consenting adults,
I think anyone interpreting the video that way has a problem.
There's no partying going on.
There's one person suffering and there's others who are abusing her.
Do you recall saying she was the one calling the shots
-during the encounter? -Yes.
Do you still think that or have you changed your mind?
Okay. Well maybe, "calling the shots"
was the wrong way of putting it.
I maintain that she was participating and we were participating with her.
-Did you talk? -Not much.
-Did she talk? -Not much.
She never said "No" or "Stop. "
They went from, "She gave the orders and told us what to do"
to, "Because she didn't say no, we took that as a yes. "
We left one by one.
Once we ejaculated, we left.
Why'd you take her phone?
A mistake. Greed.
If everything was consensual and everyone had a great time,
why leave her there, half naked, abandoned, and steal her phone?
That makes no sense.
I've always had the feeling that they didn't see what they were doing
as anything serious.
Gentlemen, lights on.
ONE HOUR AFTER THE CRIME
Let's get some sleep.
Let's get some sleep because yesterday, in a lobby…
They probably had an idea of what a stereotypical rapist is
and didn't see themselves that way.
They said themselves,
"We were experiencing a kind of porno movie together. "
Thousands have searched porn sites for the wolf pack's video.
Eleven and twelve-year-old boys have access to pornography.
How can any child process what that means?
Through porn, boys and girls are receiving messages
about what it means to be a man and a woman.
…where the woman is something to be used.
Men are being taught to insist
and that "no" or silence mean nothing.
The problem is the lack of sex education,
either at school or at home.
Porn is a reflection of the underlying values in our society.
They've been portrayed as monsters.
As people we know nothing about.
Because no one wants the assailant to be their brother, father, or cousin.
No one wants to admit the aggressor is one of their own.
But he is.
It's the last two days of the wolf pack trial.
The prosecutor has been convincing and decisive,
dismantling all of the defense's arguments.
One lawyer said the woman was pressured
by first responders to report the incident.
According to another,
she reported them because they had pictures of her.
Martínez Becerra said that while the defendants may be idiotic,
moronic, childish jerks, they are good sons.
They're good sons. They have a relationship.
May I?
They have…
They have… They have great familial relationships.
Now, their behavior, their attitudes, probably leaves a lot to be desired.
But we're not here to judge them by their ethics.
We're not here to judge if people are good or bad.
These could be five people who lead a normal life,
be good friends, be good sons,
but who have committed a criminal act.
Last day. Can you comment on the closing arguments?
The closing arguments were made
and we hope a fair verdict will be reached soon.
That's all we can ask for.
After the trial was over, I was walking through a park.
I found myself thinking about a lot of the things
talked about during the trial.
Like, what is fear? What is intimidation?
I thought of my friends.
And I thought about all the sexual violence
we'd experienced firsthand.
I'm obviously quite a bit older than the victim.
I come from a generation where you had to always watch out.
Don't go that way. Don't go alone.
As if it were your fault if you didn't take sufficient precautions,
when actually the problem is that no one should be sexually assaulting you.
I don't want to be brave.
I don't want to feel like a heroine because I went out to walk my dog
at 2:00 in the morning and nothing happened to me.
Or the typical messages in your group texts, "I'm home. "
And everyone else replies "I'm home, too. "
This trial was not only about how we talk about these events,
but also about reclaiming a way of life
where we don't have to be scared about going out and coming home,
or scared of getting drunk,
or scared of the person we take home with us.
It hurts because when my son goes out,
it's, "Have fun. Don't get into a fight. "
But when my daughter goes out, I tell her, "Have fun. Be careful where you're going. "
And that's not fair.
It's not fair.
Once the trial ended, the family felt like they'd done what they needed to do.
They were like, "We made it, the hardest part is over. "
They just had to wait.
They told me to push forward.
That if I felt like crying, I should cry. If I felt like screaming, scream.
That I should try and lead a normal life.
So, I tried to.
Once her trial was over,
it was just a matter of waiting to see if the courts believed her.
I was a bundle of nerves because I thought to myself, "Oh my God. "
The case was all over the headlines. And I thought, "I'm next. "
PRESS ROOM
In a few hours, we will find out the verdict of this huge case.
Abuse or assault?
For it to be assault, commonly referred to as "rape, "
there needs to be proof of violence or intimidation.
If not, it's only abuse.
EIGHT YEARS EARLIER
I hope that justice prevails today in that courtroom.
And we can finally rest.
I hope they use the word "murder. "
I wanted to hear "murder" in Nagore's case.
He beat her for two hours and he didn't turn himself in.
He tried to get rid of the body by dismembering her.
A jury has declared that José Diego Yllanes
is guilty of manslaughter, not murder, in the Nagore Laffage case.
They found that she mistakenly believed
he was trying to rape her
and that when she threatened to report him, he lost control.
I can't believe what we've all just heard. They only believed his version.
I DO BELIEVE YOU
Eight years later, and given how unfairly the courts had treated Nagore,
I thought this girl would get justice.
I was convinced the verdict would be "rape. "
Remember, the defense is looking for an acquittal,
while the prosecution is seeking a sentence
between 22 and 25 years in jail.
There were three judges.
The president of the court was the one reading the decision.
We now turn our coverage to the courtroom.
I'm told the president has been seated.
The court has ruled that this public hearing
be held for the reading of the verdict.
I will proceed with the reading of the verdict.
We must and we do convict José Ángel Prenda Martínez
for his guilt in committing repeated sexual abuse.
My worst fears were realized.
Antonio Manuel Guerrero Escudero,
sexual abuse with undue advantage.
Sexual abuse and not rape, what a disgrace.
Sentenced to nine years in prison.
Nine years?
We must and we do acquit him of the following offenses.
Repeated sexual assault.
I couldn't believe it.
It was a huge blow for me.
It was one of the biggest shocks I've had since Nagore's murder.
This ends the public reading of the verdict.
It's not abuse! It's rape!
It's not abuse, it's rape!
Are you happy?
It's not abuse! It's rape!
It's not abuse, it's rape!
What really hurt the victim wasn't the legal classification.
It was the dissenting vote and what that opinion reflected.
This is Judge Ricardo González of the Court in Navarre.
He's the judge who issued a dissenting opinion,
calling for the acquittal of the five young men.
According to González, it was sex among strangers
in an atmosphere of revelry and festivity.
"The victim's gestures, expressions, and sounds
suggest sexual arousal. "
He was the only one who addressed the victim
and told her, "Clearly, you did not feel pain. "
They were at home in their kitchen
when they heard about the verdict.
TERESA HERMIDA VICTIM'S CURRENT LAWYER
The girl broke down.
Her father broke down.
Her mother said, "We can't leave it like this. "
"We have to keep going. "
It's not abuse! It's rape!
It's not abuse, it's rape!
I do believe you! I do believe you!
You're not alone! We're your wolf pack! You're not alone!
The outrage continues.
There's been rallies every day since the verdict.
There's been huge protests for weeks.
TRENDING WORLDWIDE 2 #WOLFPACK
3 #IDOBELIEVEYOU 4 #NOMEANSNO
Her mother came to a rally with me.
She cried so much.
So much to think that all this support was for her daughter.
Drunk or alone I want to get home safe!
Drunk or alone, I want to get home safe!
She felt incredibly empowered
seeing so many people say, "We believe you. "
You're not alone! We're your wolf pack!
When you see so many women and men say they believe you
that's so important for the victim to hear.
It was like as if it were for me.
Sister, I do believe you.
I do believe you.
Sister, I do believe you.
I believe you too.
♪ I do believe you ♪
I DO BELIEVE YOU
SISTER, I DO BELIEVE YOU
I DO BELIEVE YOU
INTIMIDATED?
GUILTY!
Suddenly, I realized…
CRISTINA FALLARÁS WRITER AND JOURNALIST
I realized that we had to tell our stories.
That it wasn't enough to go out onto the streets and protest.
I thought, "This is it. "
"This is the moment. "
I wrote the hashtag, "Tell your story. "
WE'RE HERE FOR THE WOMEN WHO CAN'T BE
We must talk about assault and rape. These stories have been stolen from us.
We must piece it together so others recognize it. Tell your story.
I went out for a run one afternoon
when a man appeared behind a trash can, masturbating.
Tell your story.
A construction worker yelled
that if we weren't little girls, he'd rape us.
Nobody around us reacted.
Only we know that feeling of being alone in the street,
feeling footsteps behind us and our hearts starting to race.
Tell your story.
All over Spain, demonstrators took to the streets
to reject what, they say, was a far too lenient sentence.
Immediately after, protests broke out in streets in Spain.
Protests, outcry, and outrage.
Political parties have criticized the sentence.
More protests are to be expected over the weekend.
People in Spain are outraged at the outcome of a case
that's become Spain's "Me Too" movement.
COPENHAGEN
We stand with her! We stand with her!
LONDON
ROME
LISBON
Don't worry We're your wolf pack!
SYDNEY
I believe this channeled things women have felt
but kept quiet about for millennia.
Hashtag #TellYourStory has over 230,000 tweets.
I was on a three-month contract and my boss told me he wouldn't renew it
if I didn't sleep with him.
I was out three months later.
The entire time I was harassed.
Tell your story.
When I was 11 years old, one of my teachers abused me.
I'm telling you now because 16 years ago I didn't have the courage.
Tell your story.
#TELLYOURSTORY
It was like a living being,
made up of the voices of millions of women.
It took on a life of its own.
A classmate put my hand on his penis.
I yelled, "What's wrong with you?" I let it go as if it were a joke.
Out of fear and shame, I never brought it up.
Tell your story.
Thirteen years old. A man pushed me against a wall.
He licked me, touched me. I shook.
I put it out of my mind. Until today. Tell your story.
It's so difficult to tell others.
Because before you can tell anybody else about how they raped you,
you have to tell yourself. And if you do, you fall apart.
I wake up scared when my duvet falls off at night.
The same thing happened when I was little.
The man who was supposed to love me the most would throw it on the floor.
That's where it all began. Tell your story.
I was 15. The boy I liked invited me to a party.
He pressured me into drinking liquor.
And he took advantage and raped me.
Eight years go by. Sometimes I see him and he smiles.
Tell your story.
"No, please, no, " I repeated while being raped.
When I regained consciousness later, I was in the street alone, crying in pain.
When I told people, they said, "Stop exaggerating. "
I kept quiet until now, but I won't any longer.
Tell your story.
When I was 17…
I wrote and deleted my story three times
because I still don't know how to describe it.
I will someday.
TWENTY-THREE MONTHS AFTER THE CRIME
PAMPLONA PRISON I
They were released at six o'clock.
All five members of the wolf pack are out on bail.
The five convicts will be out until their appeal is heard.
Go, guys! Hey, hey! Hey!
Sons of bitches! I hope you crash!
Bastards! Rapists!
Sons of bitches! Bastards!
MILITARY PRISON, MADRID
Here he is, the policeman.
Please, can we talk?
All five are returning to Seville.
On Monday, they'll report to the nearest courthouse.
They'll report three times a week.
SEVILLE
COURTHOUSE
Do you maintain your innocence?
You're shameless! Swine!
Why did you take her phone?
Why did you remove the memory card from her phone?
Thoughts on all the rallies happening?
Do you want to apologize?
Son of a bitch!
Bastard!
-Do you maintain your innocence? -Of course.
Since the wolf pack verdict,
the Minister of Justice has proposed a review of what constitutes sexual abuse
and sexual assault.
The commission that will review
the treatment of sexual offenses in the penal code
is made up of only men.
Twenty men whose average age is over 67.
It's a difficult way to solve a problem that mostly affects women.
When the court provided us with the judgment,
we realized there was a problem.
It contained a code where you could access the full judgment,
which had the victim's personal information.
XXX XXX IS THE NAME OF THE SLUT WHO REPORTED THE WOLF PACK
I JUST UPLOADED THE PHOTOS OF THE GIRL TO XXX
There was a part of society that was disappointed with the verdict.
The far right, deniers, and followers of the "joyous homemade porn" theory.
THE MASS MEDIA MADE UP THE SAN FERMÍN STORY
THE POZOBLANCO STORY IS FAKE TOO
I think what's happened in recent years
has a lot to do with very significant advancements
in feminist and LGBTQ+ rights and discourse.
There's been a conservative backlash.
#TELLYOURSTORY. MESSAGE TO FEMINAZIS. WHY DO YOU HATE MEN SO MUCH?
RESENTFUL BITCHES #TELLYOURSTORY
#IDONTBELIEVEYOU
We already know you don't believe us.
Don't worry. We're very aware of that. And that's the problem.
WHY DON'T THE FAMILIES AND GIRLFRIENDS OF THESE GUYS GET TOGETHER
AND BEAT HER UNTIL THEY PARALYZE HER?
I couldn't believe it.
I could not understand why on earth
those people would come to my house.
It made me so anxious.
She couldn't deal with it anymore.
And left Spain.
Four of the group's members are also awaiting trial
for the alleged abuse of a woman in Pozoblanco.
I'd see them everywhere.
I thought, "I'm going crazy. "
I decided to give an interview so she could see my support somehow.
Someone sent me a link
where you can see the two of them touching my breast.
And then this so-called "journalist" had the balls to tell me
he did it to raise awareness in society.
Raise awareness about what?
I knew it was me. Everyone knew it was me.
It was just one thing after another.
I had anxiety attacks.
I couldn't even think about sex.
I didn't even want to remember that I'm a woman.
I was disgusted with myself.
I lost a ton of weight and was feeling terrible.
There came a point when I said, "I don't think I can get through this. "
"I don't want to go on. "
I thought, "Fuck it. "
COURTHOUSE
The mayor called me. It's the only time I've ever talked to him.
He asked if we'll appeal. And I said, "Of course. "
The first step was appealing
to the Superior Court of Justice of Navarra.
But the court confirmed the verdict of sexual abuse.
The Navarre Superior Court's confirmation of the sentencing
has led to reactions from judicial and political circles.
Protesters are taking to the streets again.
When she returned a few months later,
she'd grown up a little and was stronger.
I DO BELIEVE YOU
No one should feel bad about drinking,
talking to people at a party, going home alone, or wearing a miniskirt.
We must be the change we want in society.
She decided to keep going, to keep fighting.
At that point, she was the one
who had the strength to say, "This isn't over. "
Our last route was through the Supreme Court.
After almost three years, the wolf pack case
may be on its way to the Supreme Court today.
This is not An isolated case!
This hearing is to see if there was intimidation
which would classify it as sexual assault.
The Supreme Court is a very serious place few people have access to.
The courtroom's intimidating. Everything is.
SUPREME COURT
The Supreme Court was our last chance.
ISABEL RODRÍGUEZ SUPREME COURT PROSECUTOR
The prosecution has the floor.
There is no evidence that the victim consented
or agreed to have sex.
No proof that the assailants asked the victim to have sex with them.
Given the situation,
the victim, according to facts in evidence,
felt intensely overwhelmed and anxious,
causing her to enter a state of shock and submission.
Not consent, submission and passivity.
The five defendants were of a strong physical build.
Victims cannot be required to act in a dangerously heroic manner.
If you'll allow me to read verbatim
some of the phrases the Court of Navarre used
regarding the victim.
"Used like an object. "
"Frightened and subjugated. "
"Cried out in pain. "
"The accused had a sex spree after they had ambushed the victim. "
Based on all these facts, one can only conclude
that intimidation did exist, in fact, very serious intimidation.
First of all, we must state that we've not had a fair trial
during these proceedings.
We've not had a trial with full constitutional guarantees.
What did the plaintiff have to do? Just say, "No. "
An emblematic phrase that has been used, that has practically become a slogan.
"No means no. "
And we can't help but share this expression.
Of course, no means no.
But for it to mean "no, " you have to say, "no. "
Finally, Your Honor, we want to…
to thank…
thank the court…
on my behalf, for the attention we've been granted.
All that remains is for this illustrious court,
Your Excellencies, to acknowledge the accuseds' innocence. Thank you.
Thank you, counsel. The hearing is adjourned.
Judgment is now pending.
SEVILLE
These could be your final hours as a free man, are you nervous?
Ángel, are you confident in the court? Do you think you'll go free?
Do you feel calm?
Shortly after we'd finished, I got a call from the Supreme Court.
And they told me.
And the decision went viral.
The Supreme Court agrees with the protesters.
It's not abuse, it's rape.
It was rape. There was intimidation.
The victim did not give consent.
Fifteen years in prison for each of the accused.
TODAY, SPAIN IS A TINY BIT FAIRER #IDOBELIEVEYOU
I GOT GOOSEBUMPS READING ALL THE HAPPY TWEETS
#IDOBELIEVEYOU #JUSTICE
All we could do was cry. It was just a huge relief.
Finally, after everything we'd gone through.
I CRIED TEARS OF JOY AFTER THREE YEARS OF PENT-UP RAGE
THANKS, SURVIVOR, FOR YOUR STRENGTH, AND FOR HOLDING ON UNTIL THE END
YOU MADE US ALL FREER #IDOBELIEVEYOU
And to her, I just want to say, "Thank you. "
Truly, thank you.
She changed our lives.
IT WAS RAPE THE WOLF PACK IS GUILTY
IT WAS RAPE
IT WAS AND IS RAPE. IT'S NOT ABUSE. IT'S RAPE.
WE BELIEVED YOU
I was with her when they called us on the phone.
It was wonderful. We all just cried and hugged each other.
We really had to fight.
But, against all odds, we managed to get one person justice.
We aren't happy because someone has to go to prison.
Going to prison is terrible.
But you have to answer for your actions.
I feel like I failed.
I probably shouldn't say this in public, but I feel like I failed.
This isn't about winning or losing.
No one wins here.
It was a defeat for society because it happened.
CITY COURTHOUSE CÓRDOBA
And then the time came for my trial.
I was well aware of everything that was going to happen to me,
both psychologically and legally.
I have a lot of tattoos, so I covered them up.
Four wolf pack members have been sentenced to 18 months in prison
for sexually abusing a woman from Pozoblanco.
This'll be added to the 15 years they're serving
for the rape at the Sanfermines festival.
You learn to live with it.
And once you learn to live with it,
you go back to a stable life again.
I even met somebody.
I got married.
I'm going to be a mother.
And life goes on.
Every July 1st, I put together a proper tribute for Nagore.
WE WON'T FORGET ABOUT YOU ONLY YES MEANS YES!
JAVIER LAFFAGE NAGORE'S BROTHER
Nagore, we are here today in your absence,
and because of your absence,
to give you the voice and words that José Diego Yllanes took from you
fourteen years ago.
Three years ago, the trial of the gang rape
committed by the wolf pack of Pamplona
sparked outcries for the law to be changed.
The new "only yes means yes" law
focuses on consent. The term "abuse" has been dropped.
All crimes against sexual freedom are now assault, including drugging.
Following controversy in reforms to avoid sentence reductions,
the law grants a victim's right
to specialized accessible comprehensive assistance
and support for 24-hour crisis centers and sex-ed programs.
The law is enforced, but only after a crime has been committed.
We need to address what comes before that.
We need to have personal and societal convictions
that certain behaviors aren't acceptable.
But society first, then us afterwards.
It's been an important step.
It's helped transform society's perceptions
about what sexual violence is and what women experience.
It's also caused the younger generations to start having these discussions.
There's resistance and there always will be.
But a very powerful seed has been planted.
To me, this case has given hope against all odds.
It's a triumph.
Not the judgment, but that she's got her life back.
That she's going to have a degree and a profession.
But we didn't do that. It was her.
This is a thank-you letter.
Mom, Dad, thank you.
Above all, for not abandoning me.
I also want to thank Pamplona and Navarre.
And all the people who helped me on this journey.
I want to thank everyone who, without knowing me, took over Spain
and gave me a voice when so many tried to silence me.
Thank you for not abandoning me.
For believing in me, sisters.
To all the women, men, girls, and boys who are going through something similar,
there's a way out.
Speak up.
Tell a friend or a relative, the police, or send a tweet.
However you want.
But tell your story.