A young French couple’s weekend trip to Paris turned into a nightmare after a gang of youths first cornered the man at a kebab shop, forced him to strip, and later looted the couple’s rented apartment.

Alexandre and Léa, both in their early twenties and originally from Narbonne, had planned a quiet stay together while Léa was in Essonne for an internship. Alexandre, familiar with the area through family ties, had joined her for the weekend.

The couple rented a small Airbnb apartment near Parc des Coquibus in the southern Parisian suburbs.

On Friday evening, Alexandre went to eat with an old friend at a nearby kebab shop. He told Le Parisien that nothing seemed unusual until a gang of eight or nine youths gathered inside. “As soon as I got up to leave, they came up to me and said, ‘Who are you? Where are you from?'” he said. He explained that he was not from the neighborhood, but was told to follow them into a nearby building. “I tell myself there are many of them, there’s no point in trying to be a man,” he recalled.

Inside, the gang stripped him naked, searched his belongings, and took his documents and phone. They forced him to withdraw €100 — the maximum he could take out at that hour — and attempted to negotiate the sale of his iPhone online while he watched. They demanded that he unlock the device’s iCloud account to disable tracking.

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When the young man was released and returned to the Airbnb, he found the apartment had been ransacked. The television, microwave, and other goods were gone. Léa, who had been inside at the time, said she unexpectedly came face-to-face with the intruders as she stepped out of the bathroom.

“They told me everything was fine, everything was calm. They were there, completely calm. One was smoking hashish, another was humming while the others took what they could,” she said.

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The gang reportedly told her they would not take her belongings, “because they wouldn’t steal from girls.”

Le Parisien cited a source close to the investigation who said the neighborhood was a known hotbed for drug dealing, and tourists were regularly preyed upon.

The owner of the apartment, who has rented it out for about a year, declined to comment “for fear of reprisals” but has filed a complaint.

No arrests have yet been made; however, DNA traces are believed to have been found at the scene belonging to the perpetrators.

The investigation is ongoing.