A Spanish court on Wednesday upheld a controversial ruling that cleared five men of gang-raping an 18-year-old woman during Pamplona's famous bull-running San Fermin festival back in 2016.
The case has sparked protests across Spain over chauvinism and sexual abuse against women.
The judge at a court in Navarra confirmed nine-year prison sentences for the men - who called themselves 'The Wolf Pack' and joked about the 2016 incident in a Whatsapp group - for the lesser crime of sexual assault.
The five men, who called themselves 'The Wolf Pack' joked about the 2016 assault in a Whatsapp group message, but the Spanish courts could not convict them of raping the 18-year-old woman because of a lack of physical evidence of violence
The state prosecutor had originally asked for sentences of more than 20 years each for rape, which in Spain requires a plaintiff to present evidence of specific violence, such as being threatened with a knife or dealt physical blows.
But due to a technicality under Spanish law - which demands specific physical evidence to be present - the men could not be convicted of rape, even though the court ruling agreed that the five had assaulted the woman in the doorway of a residential building and recorded it on their mobile phones.
The case, has attracted widespread international attention in light of the global #MeToo movement that has catapulted sexual abuse and mistreatment of women into the spotlight, occurred during the annual San Fermin bull-running festival in the Navarran capital Pamplona.
The San Fermin festival is famous for its drunken revelry but concern has grown over increased reports of sex attacks at the event, as well as over the mistreatment of women in general in Spain.
The ruling, which can now be appealed in the Supreme Court, saw thousands of people taking to the streets of Spain in protest against the court's ruling
The original ruling was met by a wave of protests in Pamplona and other cities across Spain, where chants of 'I believe you, sister' and 'Drunk and alone, I want to get home' rang out across town squares.
'(The ruling) is an embarrassment that shows that male chauvinism is well established in the courts and we must take measures, measures that must educate judges because woman can't continue to live in fear,' the leader of the far-left Podemos party, Pablo Iglesias, said in an interview with state broadcaster TVE on Wednesday.
The original ruling was met by a wave of protests in Pamplona and other cities across Spain, where chants of 'I believe you, sister' and 'Drunk and alone, I want to get home' rang out across town squares.
The ruling, which can now be appealed in the Supreme Court, saw the men released on bail in June on a legal technicality that says no one can be held for more than two years without a definitive sentence being handed down.
All five men, who include a former policeman and a former soldier, paid £5,334 (6,000 euros) in bail though their release led to further protests and concern across the political spectrum with pledges to revise the justice system's response to such charges.
Pamploma's San Fermin bull-running festival is hugely popular in Spain and is most famously linked to drunken revelry in the streets during the festivities, however concerns have been raised in light of increased reports of sexual attacks at the event
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Main photo article A Spanish court on Wednesday upheld a controversial ruling that cleared five men of gang-raping an 18-year-old woman during Pamplona’s famous bull-running San Fermin festival back in 2016.
The case has sparked protests across Spain over chauvinism and sexual abuse against women.
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