An Australian citizen was raped by “five African-type individuals” during her vacation in Paris, with the woman taking refuge in a restaurant after the ordeal on the night of Saturday into Sunday.
At 5:00 a.m., the 25-year-old woman, who was under the influence of alcohol, entered a kebab shop in the 18th arrondissement, located on Boulevard de Clichy. She told staff there that she had just been raped by five individuals.
Police arrived on scene and interviewed the victim. She told police she had been raped by “five African-type men,” according to a police source speaking with French news outlet JDD. The woman was extremely traumatized and intoxicated, with paramedics transporting her to Bichet Hospital.
According to police sources, the judge handling the case called on a specialized service for foreign victims, and the young Australian woman will be sent back to her country on Monday. Currently, police have not released the exact circumstances of the attack and do not have any suspects in custody. Investigators are counting on the blanket of surveillance cameras in the area to give them leads and potentially arrest the suspects.
Tourists face sexual assaults in Paris
Just last month, on June 22, a tourist from England said she was raped by multiple individuals and had her phone stolen after she attended a music festival. The woman was surrounded by the hooded men, who raped her and left her crying on the streets. She was transported to Cochin Hospital. Police believe the men may have recorded the assault on their phones.
The suspects are still on the loose.
In 2023, a Mexican tourist was gang-raped by multiple men near the Champ-de-Mars, while in the same year, two Brazilian tourists were the victims of sexual assault in the gardens of the Eiffel Tower. The suspects were never caught.
As Remix News previously reported, In 2022, a North African migrant was arrested for raping a 27-year-old American tourist inside a bathroom stall in Paris while her boyfriend waited outside. Once she was missing for a while, he went in to investigate and heard her screaming for help; he then found the migrant man forcing himself on her.
French women are also targeted by foreign men. Recently, Remix News published a report detailing one rape victim who is speaking about the connection to immigration.
‘If we applied the laws, I wouldn’t have been raped,” said the young French woman after an illegal African migrant raped her in her Paris building lobby.
In 2023, Remix News reported on a wave of migrant men raping elderly French women, with many of the stories making national headlines.
According to a study, foreigners committed 77 percent of all solved rapes in the Paris area in 2023.
