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A young woman has admitted that she had made up a sexual assault complaint filed at the Ferrol National Police Station against a Moroccan residing in Spain.
The Spanish media outlet Elmundo reported that the 18-year-old woman admitted to investigators that she fabricated the allegations.
She initially reported being sexually assaulted in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Investigators summoned her to the police station Friday afternoon after they detected “inconsistencies” in her narratives, leading the woman to acknowledge, in the presence of her lawyer, that her complaint was fabricated.
The original complaint had led to serious criminal proceedings, with the woman having accused a young Moroccan man of rape and brutal assault in the Plaza de Espana in the early morning on Tuesday.
In her initial account of the fictive incident, the woman described a violent attack that allegedly required emergency medical treatment at the Ferrol University Hospital Complex.
Her initial statement indicated that four young men were present in the Plaza de Espana area that morning, though she claimed only one had assaulted her.
Police arrested the suspect, who is a Moroccan with a criminal record, immediately following the complaint.
He had been held at the police station since Wednesday and had not yet been brought before a court, as the National Police investigation remained ongoing.
Authorities are now reviewing the detention status of the arrested individual, while the woman faces potential charges of false accusation, which carry serious legal consequences under Spanish law.
Earlier Friday, before the retraction, Pedro Blanco, the Government delegate in Galicia, told the press that “all lines of investigation were open” and that additional arrests were not being ruled out, including individuals “in the victim’s circle.”
Rape is “a criminal offense” that is “absolutely reprehensible and repugnant,” Blanco elaborated.
He concluded that there would be “every response, first from the police and then the courts, to punish the guilty party.”
