A young woman from Tenerife has reported having been the victim of an alleged “puncture” in the early hours of last Sunday during the dance of magicians that was celebrated in the municipality of The Guanchaas stated in the complaint filed at the police station of the National Police Corps of The lagoon After the analyzes that were carried out in the University Hospital of the Canary Islands (HUC), although it is unknown if “chemical submission” occurred, since the first analyzes did not initially reveal toxicological signs. However, this Monday morning They continue to do serological tests among other “more extensive” analytics.
The victim states in the complaint that, around 03:00 and 03:30 on Sundaywhen he was in the plaza of the aforementioned municipality of La Guancha where the magician’s dance was being held, she felt a puncture in her right arm after a man bumped into her. She turned around, but she couldn’t see his face before the number of people who were in the place. At that time, she did not give it much importance until, a short time later, she began to feel unwell, dizzy and somewhat tired, as she relates in the complaint to which El DÍA has had access.
Shortly after, the young woman was able to return home accompanied by a group of friends, so he did not suffer any type of aggression after the alleged puncture reported. In the morning, when you wake up, continued to feel discomfort, pain and swelling in the arm so he decided to go to the University Hospital of the Canary Islands to have the timely analyzes in order to clarify the alleged aggression. The emergency room doctors of said hospital performed different tests that continue this morning, Monday, as well as other serological tests to also detect or rule out the possibility of an infection, such as HIVfrom which he could have been infected in the event that it is confirmed that he suffered a puncture.
With the medical report confirms the “suspected puncture” in the right arm, went to the La Laguna police station to file a complaint. In this, the victim indicates that before going to the aforementioned hospital, he contacted some of his friends from La Guancha to find out if they had heard or knew of a case more similar to his. Her friends’ response was that “they knew that there was a man who had been bothering girls, who was trying to do something with them, but other cases of possible needle sticks, no.”
Fortunately, as the young woman relates in the complaint, she was there all night at the magicians’ ball “accompanied by friends who never left her alone”.
This complaint for a possible “prick” to a woman could be the second case that is registered in the Canary Islands after the aggression that is being investigated in Lanzarote occurred in a pub in the municipality of Yaiza, at the end of July, although the Civil Guard confirmed it at the beginning of this same month of August.
The State Security Forces and Corps investigate around 65 complaints of “punctures” throughout Spain. Practically all the complainants are women and, in all the cases analysed, have not been victims of a crime subsequent to the “prick”What sexual assault or robberybut the aggressors take advantage of their “vulnerability” because they are relaxed in a leisure context.
