Overview

• Ertzaintza began investigating reports in late 2024 of sexually inappropriate conduct toward minors at the Bernedo camp and compiled an atestado with four complaints.
• Juzgado de Instrucción No. 3 in Vitoria ordered preliminary proceedings on September 25 after receiving the police file in May but taking no action for five months.
• Fiscal Superior Carmen Adán says the atestado never reached the Prosecutor’s Office due to electronic routing issues and has requested that formal judicial steps begin.
• Families allege monitors walked naked, showered with children and pressured minors to shower without clothes under a purported educational rationale.
• The Gipuzkoa council halted sending children to the site last summer, while the Álava PP accuses the provincial government of failing to oversee a private camp that should have notified authorities.