THREE boys aged 14 and 15 have been arrested for the alleged gang rape of a 13-year-old girl in Valencia.

The incident happened on February 10 inside the toilets of a city shopping centre.

The victim’s family went to the Policia Nacional and the youths were arrested on Monday.

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A fourth boy was allegedly involved but since he is aged 13, he could not be detained as he was below the 14-year-old starting point for criminal responsibility.

The three detained minors have been charged with sexual assault and also crimes against privacy and disclosing secrets, as the attacks were recorded on their phones.

The images were then shown to classmates at their school.

The boys have been bailed but ordered not to have any contact with the girl and a 50-metre distancing order has been imposed.

The Las Provincias newspaper reports that one of the teenagers told authorities that he had consensual sex.

He admitted to having sex with the girl in two bathrooms at the shopping centre as well as at school.

The two others said they went into a bathroom but did not assault her.

According to the victim, after entering one of the bathrooms, the door was locked and the boys and began to forcibly remove her clothes.

“I don’t want anything with you,” Las Provincias reported her saying to the two friends of the boy with whom she had agreed to have consensual sex.

Teachers at her school found out what happened four days later when videos of the assault were being passed round.

They spoke to the girl and her parents filed a complaint with the police and she went for an examination at Valencia’s La Fe Hospital.
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TWO British men, aged 37 and 51, have been arrested in Benidorm by the Policia Nacional for staging a fake kidnapping to extract €830.

A video of the victim was created where he appeared to be covered in blood and being threatened with a knife.

The footage was sent to a family member in the UK who notified British authorities about the threat.

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They demanded that €830 be immediately deposited into the victim’s bank account or else he would die.

Police in Britain contacted the Policia Nacional via Interpol who last month launched an operation in Benidorm to track down the perpetrators, which included getting information from the British Consulate.

Specialist officers from Kidnapping and Extortion Unit in Madrid were also drafted in.

The Madrid officers contacted the relative of the kidnapped person, who provided a photo of the alleged captor and details of the death threat.

A large number of police officers were mobilised in Benidorm to try to find the kidnapper and his victim, to prevent a fatal assault.

The Policia Nacional said that all other investigations were suspended as a matter of urgency because of the apparent threat to life.

Exhaustive inquiries led officers to an undisclosed Benidorm hotel at which the kidnapped man had stayed for a few days before being joined by another British national.

Officers established a surveillance operation as plans were put together to rescue the victim.

Then to their surprise, they saw both captor and victim leaving the hotel, chatting in a friendly manner.

The two men were intercepted and their identities confirmed.

Questioning revealed that it was a staged kidnapping to obtain money quickly and the Brits were arrested for simulating a crime and fraud

It was subsequently discovered that the fake kidnapper had given a false name when registering at the hotel as a guest and when identifying himself to the police.

He was then handed down an additional charge of identity theft.
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