Vox has requested the Prosecutor's Office of the Ceuta Area to group all the alleged sexual assaults reported in the autonomous city since the migration crisis that began on July 30, when 70,000 people from Morocco entered Spain irregularly, into a single investigation.
According to a document accessed by Europa Press, the party invokes Article 5 of the Organic Statute of the Public Prosecutor's Office to initiate proceedings on all the sexual assaults reported in Ceuta in the last almost three weeks, according to sources from the party.
The party led by Santiago Abascal states that the Prosecutor's Office has communicated in writing that, up to this Monday, thirteen complaints have been filed, although most have been "provisionally archived" as the identity of the alleged perpetrator could not be established.
Vox also demands that these cases be examined jointly, as each complaint is being processed "autonomously," and believes that this way it does not reflect that "the facts with the connection that links them is the invasion of Ceuta."
"This nuclear element along with the profiles of the victim and the aggressor, as they cannot be identified, will remain unpunished, and poorly investigated," adds the document sent by the party.
In this line, Vox's complaint argues that this "aggregated treatment" constitutes a "requirement of the obligation of effective investigation that the European Court of Human Rights has linked to Articles 3 and 8 of the Convention," and recalls that this court "has censured the response to specific incidents without a systematic approach when the facts present a common pattern."
The Vox document frames the reported facts "according to Articles 178 and following of the Penal Code and raises, as a hypothesis that only the investigation can confirm or dismiss, the eventual application of the types of group or criminal organization, of Article 510 and Article 607 bis for crimes against humanity."
Likewise, the party insists that there is an "organized dimension" and demands that "the common patterns that will lead to knowing the reality of the facts at our border be determined through evidence."
In addition, Vox has raised with the Prosecutor's Office the practice of six other proceedings: to prepare a unique list of all complaints for sexual crimes since July 30 and to purge possible duplicities between police, health, and judicial records; to gather testimony from all the procedures opened in Ceuta for these events, including those already archived; to request police reports analyzing patterns in these alleged assaults; to contrast genetic profiles with the police DNA database; to commission a study to determine whether there were calls to commit sexual assaults; and to take statements from victims who have not yet been able to do so, ensuring protection mechanisms.