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The legal rights of victims in Spain will be examined in Chapter 6, but in this introductory section we want to underline how the situation on victims’ rights in Spain was similar to other countries’ before victims’ rights started developing at the end of the 20th century and culminated with the transposition of the UE Directive 2012/29/EU on victims’ rights.

To give us a grasp of that evolution, in 2007, the first training workshop for specialised prosecutors4 in Spain was developed. In that workshop the following myths were debated:

• a) Victims lie or are not accurate.

• b) Victims behave too emotionally; they do not know what they really want.

• c) Victims are vulnerable and perhaps mentally ill people.

• d) Victims want revenge instead of justice.

Beyond evident progress on victims’ rights, particularly in what is understood as gender violence; to a great extent those myths continue to exist in society and in the criminal justice system.