People in Pamplona protest over gang rape acquittal Demonstrators shout slogans while holding a sign reading "Silence kills, justice silences us" in Pamplona during a protest against the acquittal of five men accused of gang raping an 18-year-old woman. The five men, in their late twenties, had been accused of raping a woman, then 18, at the entrance to an apartment building in Pamplona on July 7, 2016, at the start of the week-long San Fermin bull running festival. The men were acquitted of sexual assault, which includes rape, but sentenced to nine years for the lesser offence of sexual abuse, which under Spanish law implies there was no violence or intimidation. IMAGES