The courts of Ceuta are investigating three Moroccan immigrants who arrived in the autonomous city during the massive entry on July 30 as alleged perpetrators of separate sexual assaults, two of them on minors, according to the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia reported this Wednesday. Two of them have been imprisoned and the third has been expelled to his country. A fourth detainee accused of entering a private home and getting into bed in his underwear where a woman was sleeping has also been returned to Morocco after being charged with trespassing. Seven more migrants have been imprisoned in recent hours for other crimes.
One of the incarcerated is accused of fondling a minor, while the second in prison is charged with raping another girl and, additionally, a drug trafficking offense for forcing the victim to sell narcotics. The expelled individual is attributed with fondling an adult woman. The three victims were also part of the 72,000 people who illegally crossed the border by swimming that day. Among those who crossed, there was an as yet undetermined number of minors. The four arrests are also known after it was confirmed that at least six girls who entered irregularly that day had reported to the police having suffered sexual assaults.
In its statement, the TSJ of Andalusia details that the events occurred on different dates and that, therefore, they have been processed by different courts. Thus, court number 4 has taken charge of both the case of the sexual aggressor who was finally expelled and the detainee who has been imprisoned for raping a minor. That same court ordered the expulsion of the migrant reported by the Ceuta neighbor whose bed he got into. The case of the third accused of sexual assault, the one who allegedly fondled a minor, is being handled by court number 5 of Ceuta.
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The statement highlights that in the cases of the three sexual assaults, the judges have taken the so-called “pre-constituted statements” from both the victims and the witnesses, a method that consists of recording their testimonies with all legal guarantees so that they have full validity when reproduced in a future trial and, thus, they do not have to recount the events again. This judicial precaution is key in cases like those that occurred in Ceuta, in which two of the three victims are minors, and all are in a vulnerable situation, so when the trial takes place, they may be untraceable.
On the other hand, court number 5 of Ceuta has also ordered this Wednesday the imprisonment of seven other migrants who arrived on July 30 to the city. Five of them, for the alleged commission of an offense of assault against law enforcement officers; a sixth, for aggravated assault, and the last, for drug dealing. All these judicial decisions coincide with the existing alert due to calls spread in recent days on social networks to attempt another massive entry from Morocco next Saturday, August 15.
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