Overview

• The Sección Quinta of the Audiencia Provincial de Valencia issued search, detention, and imprisonment orders on July 8 after the two men skipped a hearing on provisional prison measures.
• Interpol and the Unidad Sirene de Cooperación Internacional have been activated to coordinate cross-border efforts to locate both fugitives.
• Simeon Simeonov, sentenced to 12 years for the group rape of a 14-year-old at a September 2020 party, is the subject of a European arrest warrant.
• Simeon Stefanov, given a 20-year sentence in the same case, remains under a domestic arrest and imprisonment order pending prosecutors’ request to upgrade it to a European warrant.
• The convictions in late June capped an investigation that initially detained ten suspects and invoked Spain’s mutual recognition framework for prosecuting sexual violence against minors.