- Authorities are investigating an all-male Spanish college after a coordinated catcalling event went viral.
- The men can be heard screaming at the women, calling them "whores" and "nymphos."
Authorities are investigating an all-male Spanish college after a video went viral of them screaming obscenities at an all-women college.
In the choreographed abuse, it appears that more than 100 male students from Elías Ahuja college in Madrid pulled up their blinds en masse and started screaming and making animal noises.
One man began the night-time mass catcalling ritual, chanting, "Whores, come out of your burrows like rabbits. You're fucking nymphomaniacs. I promise you'll all fuck in the bullfight! Go, Ahuja!"
"Go, Ahuja!" was the signal for the blinds in dozens of apartments to be pulled up, revealing the silhouette of scores of men. The sound of howling, chanting, and making animal noises aimed at the residents of the Santa Mónica all-female in the next-door building is heard.
According to video evidence filmed last Sunday, the raucous catcalling appeared to continue for more than a minute.
The release of the video provoked widespread condemnation in Spain. The Catholic college authorities condemned the behavior and the "incomprehensible and inadmissible" actions of the students, according to a statement, per the BBC.
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Politicians slammed the students, with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez describing their behavior as "macho, inexplicable, unjustified," and called for an end to "sexist behavior."
The prime minister added that it is "especially painful" to see that those behind the mass harassment are young people, and he urges that we cannot take "steps back."
The conservative opposition party's leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, said, "finish with these intolerable sexist attitudes," the BBC reported.
According to the Spanish news outlet El Pais, the alleged student who orchestrated the event has already been expelled.
Meanwhile, another dubious video from several years ago, apparently from the Elías Ahuja residence, emerged. In it, students sing the words "Sieg Heil" and make what appears to be a Nazi salute, reported the BBC.