[1][2] The case received media attention due to the fact that the defendants were the same aggressors of the La Manada gang rape which took place in Pamplona, Navarre, against a 18-year-old girl from Madrid two months later in July 2016, for which they were convicted and imprisoned.
The case arose following the discovery of footage in a phone belonging to one of the aggressors in La Manada gang rape of Pamplona, which showed an unresponsive girl lying in a van being subjected to groping and mockery.
The victim, who has little memory of the elapsed time, let a friend know that "something had happened" to her,[3] but knew of the sex abuses she suffered only after officers from the regional police of Navarre showed her the evidence, deciding in turn to report.
The prosecutor petitioned a three-year prison term each for sex abuse, and four years more for offence to privacy, for recording and posting the footage.
Alfonso Jesús Cabezuelo, a military officer at the time of the events, was requested an additional 12 euros fine per day over two months for injuring the girl with a smack.