Police are investigating the suspected rape of an ‘English’ teenager near a Barcelona nightclub.
The 19-year-old is thought to have been hit over the head with a stone before being sexually attacked.
She was rushed to hospital after being discovered in a street near the nightspot, named as Input, in a state of shock with a wound to her head, cuts and bruises to her knees.
The alarm is said to have been raised around 5am yesterday morning by security guards, around an hour after the woman left the nightclub.
The teenager told them she had been hit over the head with a stone.
The ongoing investigation is being led by the Catalan police force the Mossos d’Esquadra. They could not be reached for comment early this morning.
The victim has been described as “English” by some local press and “Anglo Saxon” by others.
Catalan police have not made any official comment on her nationality and are not expected to do so as they usually do not confirm where crime victims are from.
They are understood to be hunting two men partially picked up on CCTV. No arrests have yet taken place although investigators are understood to have obtained DNA evidence from the teenager’s underwear which could be crucial to identifying those responsible.
The spot where she was targeted has been identified as being near to the Romanesque monastery of San Miguel at the eastern end of the Poble Espanyol attraction in Barcelona.
The Poble Espanyol, built for the 1929 World Fair in Barcelona, is an open-air architectural museum close to the Fountains of Montjuic.
It consists of 117 full-scale buildings replicated from different places in Spain, and also contains a theatre, restaurants, artisan workshop and a contemporary art museum.
Input is one of Barcelona’s techno hubs, with national and international DJs performing on Friday and Saturday nights.
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