The men were charged with sexually assaulting at least eight girls, including three minors, in Alicante during a yearly festival that celebrates Christian victories over the Moors in the Reconquista.
Days after the Swedish government released crime statistics from last year which showed the number of rape incidents to have climbed by 25% from those recorded in 2017, the French interior ministry released figures that are even more shocking, revealing that instances of sexual violence in 2021 increased by 33% from the previous year.
