Two non-commissioned officers save a young woman from sexual assault in Melilla

The place of honour that History has reserved for the soldiers of ‘Alcántara’ Regiment –who had a leading role in the Spanish Cavalry’s most epic actions during the Rif War and who with their intervention, made possible the withdrawal of the Spanish troops that had survived the Annual disaster (1921)-, is the one that is now occupied by two of its members in the life of a young Moroccan woman who they helped when she was being sexually assaulted in a pine forest in Rostrogordo yesterday evening.
 

As well, they facilitated the Civil Guard’s arrest of the two attackers, also of Moroccan nationality. 
 

The two non-commissioned officers, posted to 10th Armoured Cavalry Regiment ‘Alcántara’ in Melilla, were undertaking night instruction when they heard a woman’s screams for help
 

Guided by the sound of her voice, they reached the site where the presumed assault was taking place and found the young woman on the ground struggling with the men, who were beating her.
 

Thanks to their intervention, the crime could not be perpetrated, and the Civil Guard did not hesitate to highlight their action and to describe the two servicemen as ‘exemplary citizens’.