Seven men are said to have attacked a 28-year-old tourist – such brutal gang rapes have recently occurred more often in India. Criminologist Karuppannan Jaishankar sees the reasons for this in the rapid pace at which the country is changing.
There are said to have been seven men who attacked the couple who were spending the night in a tent. They raped the woman, a 28-year-old tourist, and beat her 64-year-old husband, forcing him to watch the violence. This is what the victims told the Indian police. The woman, who has both Brazilian and Spanish citizenship, and her Spanish husband were on a motorcycle tour through 66 countries and they also made the brutal attack public on their social media accounts. Since then, the case has gone around the world. Also because it reminds us of the rape of a Swiss tourist in 2013. Karuppannan Jaishankar, 50, founder of the Institute of Criminology and Legal Research in Bangalore, explains whether India is a more dangerous country for women than it was 30 years ago.