D. Ray
2024-08-25 16:29:49 UTC
An Australian tourist was gang-raped by five African men in Paris before
fleeing to a kebab shop where one of her attackers followed her inside.
The woman, 25, was attacked at about 3am on Saturday morning near Boulevard
de Clichy in the French capital’s 18th arrondissement, close to the famous
Moulin Rouge cabaret, just days before the Olympic Games is due to begin.
She sought refuge in a nearby kebab shop with her dress on backwards and
partially torn, only for one of her rapists to confront her again, CCTV
footage from the store obtained by 7 News shows.
The footage shows the victim being helped by customers and staff before an
African man in black pants and a white T-shirt walks in.
According to 7 News she tried to tell locals he was one of the attackers,
but they were unable to speak English.
As he made an order and lingered in the shop, she was able to alert an
English speaker, who confronted the African.
He the fled the shop just minutes before police arrived.
The kebab store owner said: “She couldn’t stop crying, her dress was
damaged.”
A local told the TV network that sex attacks were becoming increasingly
common in Paris.
“It happens a lot of time in France, it happens every day,” he said.
Paris police statistics from earlier this year showed that 77% of the
solved rape cases in 2023 were committed by non-citizens, and most were
committed in or near tourist areas. Paris is 20.3% foreign-born.
The city’s prosecutor’s office said: “The investigation into the charge of
gang rape likely to have been committed on the night of July 19 to 20 has
been entrusted to the 2nd judicial police district.”
The victim was due to return to Australia the day after she was gang-raped,
but is now staying to assist with the investigation after being treated at
Bichat hospital.
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fleeing to a kebab shop where one of her attackers followed her inside.
The woman, 25, was attacked at about 3am on Saturday morning near Boulevard
de Clichy in the French capital’s 18th arrondissement, close to the famous
Moulin Rouge cabaret, just days before the Olympic Games is due to begin.
She sought refuge in a nearby kebab shop with her dress on backwards and
partially torn, only for one of her rapists to confront her again, CCTV
footage from the store obtained by 7 News shows.
The footage shows the victim being helped by customers and staff before an
African man in black pants and a white T-shirt walks in.
According to 7 News she tried to tell locals he was one of the attackers,
but they were unable to speak English.
As he made an order and lingered in the shop, she was able to alert an
English speaker, who confronted the African.
He the fled the shop just minutes before police arrived.
The kebab store owner said: “She couldn’t stop crying, her dress was
damaged.”
A local told the TV network that sex attacks were becoming increasingly
common in Paris.
“It happens a lot of time in France, it happens every day,” he said.
Paris police statistics from earlier this year showed that 77% of the
solved rape cases in 2023 were committed by non-citizens, and most were
committed in or near tourist areas. Paris is 20.3% foreign-born.
The city’s prosecutor’s office said: “The investigation into the charge of
gang rape likely to have been committed on the night of July 19 to 20 has
been entrusted to the 2nd judicial police district.”
The victim was due to return to Australia the day after she was gang-raped,
but is now staying to assist with the investigation after being treated at
Bichat hospital.
<https://www.noticer.news/australian-tourist-gang-raped-paris-african-men/>