Six African migrants gang-raped a 12-year-old girl in small town near Madrid, but Spanish authorities kept information about the crime hidden from the public for more than a year, apparently to avoid fuelling anti-immigration sentiments.
On March 15, 2018, the 12-year-old girl was playing in a park in Azuqueca de Henares with several other girls when, at around one o'clock in the afternoon, six migrants — five Moroccans and one Nigerian — approached the playground. They carried two of the girls off to a nearby abandoned building, but then let one of them go after discovering that she was a Muslim. The migrants, aged between 15 and 20, grabbed the 12-year-old by her arms and legs and took turns raping her, first *** and then vaginally, for nearly an hour.