With an average of 14 rapes per day across the country, the figure nearly triples the 1,878 cases reported in 2019 when five daily incidents were reported. The upward trend has remained consistent year-over-year since 2018, aside from a brief dip during 2020 due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Regional breakdowns show that communities like Catalonia, Madrid, and Andalusia report the highest numbers, although increases have been noted throughout all regions of Spain. Cases involving minors, nightlife-related assaults, and attacks perpetrated by groups of offenders are also on the rise. The grim reality presented by these numbers translates to a woman being raped every hour and 45 minutes in Spain.
Remix News reported in November last year on a La Rázon report that revealed 91 percent of those convicted of rape in Catalonia are foreigners, with immigrants comprising just 17 percent of the region's total population.
When it comes to sexual assault and rape combined, 64.2 percent of inmates are foreign nationals.
As reported by El Español, the rapid increase in sexual violence has overwhelmed specialized police units such as the Family and Women's Care Units (UFAM) of the National Police and the Women-Minor Teams (EMUME) of the Civil Guard, both reporting understaffing and resource constraints. Officers within these units indicate that they are working beyond capacity, often handling a significantly higher workload than a decade ago without adequate support, training, or compensation.
Government officials have partly attributed this increase to more women coming forward and make no reference to the dramatic rise in mass immigration into Spain over the past decade. However, the continuous surge raises difficult questions about the effectiveness of initiatives such as the "Only Yes Means Yes" law, designed specifically to curb sexual violence.
Elena Ramallo, a Spanish campaigner battling violence against women, took to social media to criticize the El Español report for failing to address an obvious factor.
"Not a single reference in the entire article to the identity of the aggressors," she wrote.
Police unions, however, have cited multiple factors contributing to this trend, including what they describe as "influence from cultures that undervalue women," deteriorating societal values, and growing youth gang violence. The unions called for preventive measures, such as education on consent and bolstering police resources to cope with the epidemic.
Amid mounting public and political pressure, calls are intensifying for the Spanish government to strengthen institutional responses, not just through symbolic campaigns but by significantly investing in personnel, specialized training, and improved victim support initiatives.
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Well of course. They don't want the rapists and their families and friends to start rioting and call the authorities racists.
GET REAL folks, TIMES are NOW.
SUPERIOR COURT
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And they surely did not encourage women to behave and dress like whores lately, did they ?
And they surely did not accuse fathers and husbands of "toxic patriarchic masculinity" when thes stood up for their daughters and wives, did they ?
People will vote for Hitler 2.0 under these kinds of conditions, because what else is there? What alternative do people have?
The political pendulum just swings left to right, each time more extreme than the last, and the finger pushing it is always government.
We are being played, and it is We the People who will pay the price. We will pay with our lives to have our own cities destroyed, cheer as it burns, and salute our Führer who delivers us into victory through his tyranny.
Yuppp, 🤔🫣 not much of that going around our RACE... to the BOTTOM.
Personally, I'd like to see a second stone-age. My DNA is begging for it. That is where I would have thrived. This "civilization" has rotted my soul from the beginning, and I have nothing to offer this world but contempt, and none of what they call "progress" does anything for me...I can appreciate the plumbing.
Giant TVs, amazon delivery, hot concrete, power-lines everywhere, cell-phones, ugly cars, hideous architecture, shitty jobs, stupid schools, fake science, poison medicine, mechanical music; it all seems so counter to a prosperity easily grasped by simply serving and glorifying the Earth rather than enslaving it and raping it to death for the personal gain of a few gluttonous pricks on top of the Heap Kingdom of Filth and Violence.
Babylon must fall.
Having said that, when I reflect on history, it appears there was never a day, regardless of the level of our technology, that we weren't hacking each other to death with sharp sticks, rocks, steel, or whatever we could get our greedy and jealous monkey thumbs around. WTF is wrong with us? What hope is there? How in the world can we make a cake from this turd?
We are a turd cake...with sprinkles. More sprinkles, anyone?
We sure are baskets & caked , but paradise is under our twinkletoes and calls for out ATTENTION not a tension.
Our body is the only balance that is to be respected. If we can do that, we're honouring (fathering) our Mothering and others 100-monkey 🐒 us.
Dr David Hawkins, in Power vs Force shares his long-time research, we're talking about his books in another thread at the moment too. The STATS are extra-ordinary. BALANCE + WALK
We Twinkle, don't need the sprinkles, thems for the novices.
She wasn't wrong. However, it turned out that ultimately I wouldn't belong to myself either. I ended up sacrificing whatever the world left of me to God, who reinvested that in my kids, apparently (not what I would have chosen)...it was indeed mine to give, though.
I think it's been harsh and hard to live with, but I also think it might be worth it (not my call). Our kids are so much better people than my wife and I are, and OMG our parents were so much worse than that...and so on.
It's a strange thing, ascending from generational hell like that, rather than descending into it like some do, and then blame it on bad upbringing, like, "My ancestors were slaves " or "I was born a poor black child"
The proper order is to ascend from the apes, rather than descend from apes, probably. Too many folks got their family tree upside down, me thinks.
Life is NOW... cut the flap, do it honours 🎱🪄 babe
The symbolism of clay can also portray ideas of renewal and reincarnation as clay can be infinitely recycled in its raw state by managing its moisture levels. This alludes to the infinite possibilities of clay and the capacity to start all over again, to be reborn."Dirt" fuelled, not "earth" or "soil" fueled.
I think it is uniquely the American culture that commonly refers to the earth as dirt.
"Soil" cones down from the same root as "soul" as our agricultural ancestors saw that that was where Life came from and where it went back to.
The very word "Human" comes from the Latin Humanus.The "us" is a grammatical suffix indicating that the word is a noun. "Human" is from two parts. Not "Hu" and "Man" as you might think, but "Hum" and "An".
"An" is the breath of life, the spirit that makes movement. As in animal, animate and anima.
Without it we have "Humus", the decaying organic matter that gives us compost and the soil from which all Life (was assumed) to rise.
-hum- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "ground. '' This meaning is found in such words as: exhume, humble, humiliate, humility, humus, posthumous.
In early judeo myth (copied and parralleled from much earlier civilisations) the first man is made by God breathing Life into the "clay" of the earth. In the Christian burial ceremony "ashes to ashes, dust to dust, from earth we came, to earth we return"
"Dirt" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "drit", meaning "shit".
It seems very revealing of American culture that it refers to our common mother Earth, as shit and nothing more than a worthless waste product, and THAT explains a lot."
1. Truth
2. Kindness
3. Intelligence
All else is noise pollution which whether we believe it or not pollutes greatly our world and that intereferance will have to be cleared. That is KARMA and collaterally we all get fucked by it.
Consciousness means science WITH God.... not masquerading as God.
Boots up our asses is here and masks get ripped.
RACE to the Bottom.
I've been ready to post for a couple of months but waiting for the 🔔