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Equal Housing Lender welcome to the watch floor. I'm Sarah Adams. What happens when the institutions put in place by the government who are supposed to protect you are not only the ones that break you, but are the ones that approve your death. Today we're talking about Spain. We're going to discuss violence against women, how it's tracked and how it's reported. Well, under reported, there's a massive failure of transparency in migrant related crimes. And then we're going to talk talk about cases where victims suffered long term. Now this episode is about real people, real crimes, real systematic failure. And the entire world was faced with this reality this week when we watched the Spanish government completely fail. Noelia Castillo. One of the things that really concerns me is this assisted suicide thing had one in 20 deaths in Canada, is now assisted suicide. That's insane. This is a difficult case, but it sounds like so many other cases. And then it ends in this just traumatic way that everybody's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. These happen every day. Very similar. How do we get to a point of euthanasia? So first when we talk about her, she was separated from her parents at the age of 13. Her father was absent. Her mother was like experienced kind of economic problems. She gets brought into this government facility where she's gang raped. From what we're hearing, it's by three migrants. Of course the government doesn't want to say that because remember, they don't break down by ethnicity or any of those type of statuses. But the sad part is none of the people who harmed her were brought to any sort of justice, right? So no matter what you want to label it and call it, you still covered up this crime. And when you do that, you allow the perpetrators to do it again and again and again. And you say, this is perfectly allowed in our society and it's perfectly allowed inside a government facility. Right? At this point, she was like a ward of the state. The Spanish government was supposed to be providing for her, taking care of her, and they let this harm be caused to her. So then what happens? You know, she's inside the center and she goes through with this and she finally decides, you know, I can't deal with this. I'm just going to try to attempt to take my own life. She jumps off a fit fifth floor balcony, becomes, you know, paralyzed. Well, at that point, as you can imagine, a lot of time you treat problems only with drugs, right? And so of course, they start pumping tons and tons of morphine into her. She can't feel like the pain. She can't get ahold of the pain. She's feeling depressed, you know, she has no one advocating for her. She doesn't really have a voice. She doesn't even feel like, you know, she kind of has the power and the strength and the mobility she has, you know, and this just becomes something to where the state then says, oh, it's perfectly fine if you take this route of euthanasia. Right? Oh, this is a way to deal with what you're going through with dignity. Right? This is one of the craziest things when you're saying this to someone in this situation. Like this should be the opposite of what you're saying to them. And they're like, no, you know, here's this easy out. And really, it's only easy for the government.
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They desperately want control. Like, they don't. They want to say, it's now. And we say, okay, well, I can get back here at 7 o'. Clock, is that okay? And they'll say yes. And they'll be so grateful that they can skip the last two days of their life. And I look at it and think what he really needed was some more drugs. But you want my drugs, I'll give them to you. Liz, right now you love life and you want to live, but there's lots of nasty illnesses you might get.
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Yeah, it kind of wraps up the situation, puts it aside and they don't have to deal with their systematic failures. But as you can imagine, this now then is going to open up a can of worms. So when we talk about Noelia she had ptsd, depression, she had like obsessive compulsive disorders, chronic pain, of course, and she had basically, you know, a long term disability. And then a lot of it was like the psychological trauma again. Everything I just named to you is not like a death sentence. Right. She did not have some incurable disease and was gonna die within a few months. But they treated that way and they gave her solutions as if that's the case. I mean, this is an insane thing. Now her family, who, like I said, they weren't the best, obviously in her teens, you know, did get involved in trying to fight this. Well, her father first went to the courts and he did it systematically through the court system. And he said, hey, she is not competent to make this decision, you know, due to her mental state. If that's right or if it's wrong, it is happening too quick for the position she feels she's in. Right. She's overwhelmed. Why are we pushing through a death sentence which is actually like state sponsored murder? I mean, this is probably even an extrajudicial killing because all this harm happened within the state system. And at the end, they're giving you a death sentence at the end. This is a crazy thing. So, you know, her father goes and tries to fight the state and the system, you know, uses his resources. It doesn't help. Her mom is trying to deal with the emotional trauma supporting her. But of course putting appeals in like, honey, you don't need to do this. And then we get to the point where the appeals reached the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights. Both parents are actively involved in this. And the courts ruled that the euthanasia is approved and go forward and it doesn't need the parents consent and it doesn't even really have to listen to the parents objections, right. Because she is an adult. Then they assigned, right, this euthanasia for Thursday of this past week, so yesterday, and as you can imagine, crowds start flooding the hospital. The mom still pushing the doctors like, hey, let's push this off, we don't have to do it. And then they give like the family this weird excuse, well, we can't stop it now. We, we have already predetermined who her organs are going to. She is not even dead yet. And we're saying no, we can't reverse it because we already have a plan for after she's dead. I mean, this is just this frustrating thing. It's like nobody actually cares about this single person, right? She's just like this after effect of this entire broken state system. I really don't think she understands the support she has. I don't think she's aware of other places she could go, other therapies she can receive, you know, to kind of work through this harm that was caused to her and this darkness she feels and she really can't see her way out of it. Right. We have not exhausted all resources to protect her. Now it's too late. So she was euthanized. And we're at a point where, you know, as a society, yes, this is Spain, but it's still the entire world. And remember, Spain is the one country that morally objects to every other country that has the death penalty. Right? They will take criminals, murderers, rapists into their country just so another country does not give them the death penalty. And then here they are on the other side saying, oh, we can give euthanasia to lick this rape victim. That's okay. I mean, that is also a death penalty. So it's just this odd thing. So they legalized this euthanasia program in 2021. Right. So it's not even that old. And it's supposed to be for terminal illnesses with unbearable suffering. Right. This was not a terminal illness Noelia had. So how can you approve this instance just off the bat? There's this irony of where they throw all their ideals out the window and say, yeah, we have a moral compass, we're just not going to employ it in this case. A lot of people in the country are saying this raises, like, a massive ethical question, right? It's if the state fails to protect, does it then have the right to also approve death? And people should be asking this because this is the problem here. The state caused the majority of these issues and they offered her no justice. And then at the end, when all the harm had occurred, they say, oh, you're out euthanasia. Right. It's not like we are going to go above and beyond to find solutions to this problem. It's like, nope, let's wrap this up and move on. Let's look at the numbers in Spain when it comes to violence against women. When we talk about the government numbers, they're incredibly low. When you reach out to NGOs, they say they're 2030, some say they're 40% higher. So we already have a reporting problem, so we're going to go with what the government put out. But you need to understand these numbers aren't exactly factual in what's happening on the ground. I don't even know if you've seen there's been like broadcasters on the ground talking about crimes against women. And sometimes the migrant or the illegals committing these crimes and the public will literally yell out to the broadcasters and say, stop lying, tell the truth. Right? Because there's this constant political narrative to keep and to hush it up. And, you know, it might be racist to point out, you know, certain demographics are causing harm. And I think we have to get away from that because we have problems and they're not being dealt with. And now we're euthanizing people, which is murder, to deal with the problem. And that is not okay. I think the whole world is saying, we do not want a future where this is the norm. And this happens again and again and again. So when we look at the national data in Spain, you know, they say since about 2003, almost 1300 women were killed just solely by their partners. Right? So kind of a domestic situation. But they say there's over 30,000 gender based cases reported annually. Right. That's a huge number. And then they say in most of those cases it is rape or attempted rape. Now if we just zoom into like Barcelona, they have for 2024, there are nine femicides, there are 7,832 incidents of gender and domestic violence. And they say that was up from 6400 in 2022. Now, the layout with the victim profile looks like. And they say 65% of those cases did experience sexual violence. So this isn't just like a physical violence. 13.6% were raped and 12.8% were attempted rapes. So this is a big problem. They said 90% of those impacted in these cases are women and over 50% are under the age of 25. Right. They are not protecting their young women in this society. And this is a very scary thing. And citizens there are expressing so many frustrations because the government does not really collect kind of the ethnic and the migrant breakdown of these crimes. So even if you go out and say, oh, the migrant rapes have increased, people call you a liar because there's not a government statistic to back it up. See how they play this game? If you don't put a fact out there, anyone can argue the point. And then it could be called misinformation. And the problem is no one ever deals with the root cause because no one wants to talk about the root cause. When you talk to NGOs, they also point out an interesting thing that also doesn't get discussed. So we have, of course, violence against women who grew up in Spain, but also 40% of this crime is happening against these foreign born women, right? Because we're bringing in people who don't have the same morals and values and they might not treat women the same way. And they're harming not just the women who grew up in Spain, but they're harmless, harming their wives and their daughters that they brought with them. And this is a very scary thing and it's not something people are honest about, but it's the truth. Now, we've been hearing a lot about these euthanasias. Obviously there's a lot of concern about it happening in Canada and we have seen this now multiple times in Europe. So we had the case, you know, Shanti des Corte, if you don't remember her, she survived the Brussels bombing, right? The one that occurred kind of in the baggage claim at the airport. You know, it killed, gosh, I think it was dozens at the time. She had severe ptsd. Very similar to obviously what we saw a lot of these October 7th victims go through, right? Because terrorist attacks have ripple effects. They have effects. And she was euthanized in Belgium in 2022 for unbearable psychological suffering caused by the attack. Again, this is not a case where she had a terminal illness. We have another case of Milo Verhoff in the Netherlands. And the scary part about her case is she was only 17 and it's very similar to what we're seeing in Spain. So she was raped at the age of 13 and then raped again at the age of 16. And her parents kind of put her in a home and saying, oh, she's mentally insane. So the government actually approved psychiatric euthanasia for a 17 year old and she was basically diagnosed with PTSD caused by childhood abuse and trauma. Now can you imagine if we take every 17 year old in the world that has gone through this trauma and we just euthanize them? I mean, and to even be able to do this to someone this young is a crime and it's a crime of the state to allow this to occur to a teenager. Now the other cases were people older. So we had another case in the Netherlands of Zariah Tabik, and she was 29, chronic depression and was euthanized in 2024 at the age of 29 for chronic depression. Again, not a terminal illness. This was depression. There's another case in the Netherlands of 38 year old depression and autism. That's it. That was their medical diagnosis and euthanasia was approved. This is an insane thing. We're going to euthanize people with autism. The thing is when you let one of these happen and then you let a second one happen. I just gave you three. In the Netherlands, there's a third, third one happening. We have this happening in Spain. I just showed you how it happened in Belgium. You see how these are starting to add up and it becomes normal. It doesn't get handled correctly. Heck, there is a case recently in Canada and the woman at the last minute decided she didn't want to do it. And they're like, what? You're too far along. Sorry, sorry. Are you kidding me? Now we have a whole nother problem here in Spain. It's the fact that they're really covering up, you know, who committed this gang rape against her when she was in the government's custody. And of course most are saying it was three migrants. There's a lot of discussions. They're likely from North Africa or at least the Middle East. And we have this problem in Spain where they continue to cover it up. Just this year in 2026, a 54 year old woman was raped and murdered and the suspect was Moroccan. Last year a 14 year old was raped and a migrant youth was arrested. Again. Migrant youth, right. Because they won't tell you who these people are. We had another case In June of 2025, a 21 year old was attacked in a residence facility run by the government. Again, that was a migrant who did that. And then in October 2025, a female staff member was assaulted by a minor migrant. So we also have these underage migrants committing crimes and it's not even clear that they're getting any kind of sentences. They're even being told that this is wrong. It's like you're letting this behavior happen and it's showing that the society is going to allow it to occur because there's no harsh sentences. You don't call it out and you're not even honest that it's occurring. You know, another thing is this isn't just a problem in Spain. We're going to focus a lot on Spain today because of course that's the biggest impact to all of us. But Germany's having a huge problem with this and again, not really putting out the numbers that we should be seeing. So I think the last real quality number we got, and I don't still think it's underreported, was in 2023 they said they had said 7,000 rapes by migrants. As you know, once you start talking about those numbers, politicians get nervous and then they start saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, we don't need to account statistics like that. Let's just keep them broad in general. We don't want to focus on certain people, and then it doesn't solve the problem. So, you know, across Europe, sexual assaults and the violence against women has increased massively from 2015 to 2025. And all these kind of like manipulated statistics isn't really helping tell the full truth. We also have the fact that NGOs in Europe are saying, one of the biggest things we're seeing is so many of these victims are young. And when they say young, right, they're talking teenagers and sometimes even younger than that. And they're being disproportionately affected because nobody's really talking very publicly about this. Other thing is because these governments across Europe are not actually putting up the numbers, it is important to kind of lean into some of these organizations or independent researchers who are putting in the groundwork and trying to get the truth out and get the facts. Because, again, the problem only continues if you don't explain not only how bad it is, but how worse it's getting, because that's what they're covering up. The fact that every year it's getting worse. Like, nobody's putting anything in place to improve this. Now, we can't fix the case that happened, unfortunately, we lost Noelia. But we have to remember there are ripple effects to all this harm. You know, we have talked about this euthanasia piece, but we forget that she really did try to commit suicide. Right. And this is one of these problems. These women who go through rape have this ptsd and unfortunately does lead to suicide in many cases. Like we said, we've seen a lot of it, you know, after October 7th, what these women had to witness and some of them had to experience for themselves and the way they had to watch their friends die, I mean, it's horrifying. Their loved ones were killed in ways you could never imagine. Right. If you've seen any of the actual footage, I mean, it's a nightmare. And so we also have this problem where we're not getting clear statistics out of Spain regarding, okay, so how many women are raped, how much is violent crime carried out by a migrant or just a spouse or whatever, and then what percentage of them go on to commit suicide? And do we also have a problem in that category that the state is not effectively dealing with? Her case really exemplifies the fact that there's this compounded harm and it's from violence and then institutional neglect. Well, who else is experiencing this institutional neglect? We clearly all know there's a problem. Well, can the problem be fixed for others? And for those of us not in Spain and in other countries, we want to make sure we don't allow this to occur here. We don't want to take people who have depression in of spite, say, oh, you can be euthanized, or something like this. So as violence against women continues to rise all across Europe, we have to be honest about at least the fact a percentage of these crimes come from migrants who probably weren't vetted properly and who maybe never want to have the same way of life that you want to do. I mean, it's just a factual thing. And this is not racist to say this, right? Not everyone can coexist peacefully. We all have different beliefs. We all grew up in different systems. And there are societies that view women differently, right? They view women more as a property or an entity you own. And that's very, very different than we view, of course, the role of a woman in the West. There needs to be some sort of discussion about the psychiatric euthanasia, right? Euthanasia was supposed to be for these terminal illnesses in Europe. Now when you're saying, well, we're gonna just roll all these psychiatric conditions under it. So now you can say, oh, if you have ptsd, that's grounds for euthanasia, I think we're getting pretty extreme as we expand out this definition. And we've done this in other ways, right? The ways people have unfort done this harm to their underage children before they're adults and can make decisions about their bodies. And now we have the government coming in and making these decisions and making these approvals that really can for some people be death sentences, as was the case here. You know, institutions must protect healing and report they have no role in sanctioning death. You know, Noelia's story is a warning, right? It's this failure to protect. It's followed by the sanctioned death. You know, it's this abdication of responsibility by. It seems to be everybody in Spain. And, you know, this is a real women and all these are real women that we talked about today. These are real crimes, you know, and this is real harm. And demanding truth and accountability around that is the right to thing so we don't have to watch us occur again and again. You know, you should ask yourself, in situations like this, you know, are institutions serving the people they say that they're there to protect, right? Because we have a lot of problems in our own country, especially when we put like these young, these teens and children into care away from their families, into government systems, and there is a lot of harm that occurs then. You know, are governments being transparent enough to let society see these criminal patterns before they lead to massive harm? I don't think that's occurring. I mean, even the United States, we have places that don't even report out crime statistics anymore. We don't do any kind of detailed breakdown. You know, that's why there's always the joke like there'll be a person of 1000 different colors. And they all say white. Well, because the breakdowns really aren't there. Right. You go in the System, you got two, maybe three choices and you make 90% of the people white or whatever the category is. Right. We're also not doing real good statistics to know where some of these problems occur from. And then what is the responsibility of the public to demand an accountability, especially in this case, harmed in a government system, this death penalty approved by the government courts. Like I said, it looks a lot like an extrajudicial killing, which is incredibly illegal. And I think this was a hard one for a lot of people to see. And we do have, I feel, a lot more questions than answers. And we owe it to her and other victims that unfortunately are probably going to come after to speak about this, to speak loudly and to speak stop it from happening again. Thanks for being here today on the watch floor.
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