Tag: Gang rape

  • Paris police are investigating the alleged ‘gang rape’ of an Australian woman

    Paris police are investigating the alleged ‘gang rape’ of an Australian woman

    French authorities are probing an alleged rape of a 25-year-old Australian woman by five men in central Paris. The woman reportedly sought refuge in a kebab shop in the Pigalle area on Saturday morning, with her dress partly torn, according to local media.

    While no arrests have been made, prosecutors have confirmed the investigation is being treated as a “gang rape.”

    The incident occurred just days before the opening of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Le Parisien reported that restaurant owners called for assistance upon seeing the woman’s condition.

    Firefighters attended to her immediately after the alleged assault, and she was subsequently taken to Bichat hospital for a medical examination.

    The Paris Prosecutor’s Office has stated that police are examining CCTV footage as part of their investigation into the allegations.

    “The investigation into the charge of gang rape likely to have been committed on the night of 19 to 20 July has been entrusted to the second judicial police district,” it said.

    In preparation for the upcoming Olympics, Paris is seeing a significant police presence to ensure safety. Officers have been patrolling the city in large numbers since last week, with armed guards stationed around the River Seine.

    Several security zones have been established, dividing Paris into different areas.

    To enter specific zones, such as the one around the Eiffel Tower, individuals must apply for a special games pass through a platform managed by the police. The Olympics begin on Friday, prompting these heightened security measures.

  • Two Ghanaian footballers apprehended in India on charges of gang rape

    Two Ghanaian footballers apprehended in India on charges of gang rape

    A young job seeker reportedly fell victim to an alleged sex racket orchestrated by a woman from New Town.

    The victim claims that she was coerced into engaging in sexual activities with two Ghanaian footballers at a guest house in the city, where she was subjected to gang rape by the duo.

    The New Town police responded to the woman’s complaint and subsequently arrested the two footballers and the woman involved.

    According to the police, the woman in her late twenties was living alone in a rented flat in Gouranganagar, New Town, following her separation from her husband.

    As she was unemployed, she approached her neighbor, Lisa Collins, for financial assistance. Collins offered her some work, leading to the unfortunate events that transpired.

    According to the complaint, on May 16, Collins asked the woman to come with her for a job. “They reached a guest house in Picnic garden where the two Ghanaian footballers lived and she was forced to spend the night with them.

    The woman complained the two men had sex with her on multiple occasions through the night against her wish and was let go only the next morning,” said an officer of Bidhannagar City Police.

    Battered and bruised, the woman stayed at her rented accommodation for two days, before she gathered courage and strength to turn up at the New Town police station and lodge a complaint against Collins and the two footballers on Friday.

    Acting on her complaint, New Town police first arrested Collins and then took her to the Tiljala address where the two footballers were arrested.

    Christopher Nars (28) and Moses Zutah (24) are both residents of Ghana who came to India on student Visa and were hired as part time footballers for different clubs across the state in exchange of money.

    Cops booked them under IPC sections 376 D (gangrape), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention).

    If convicted the trio can face rigorous imprisonment for life. They were produced before a Barasat court on Sunday and were remanded in police custody.

    (The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault).

  • KNUST student, police officer accused of gang raping girl granted bail

    The High Court sitting in Kumasi has granted bail to an interdicted police officer and a final year student of KNUST, standing trial for allegedly gang-raping a first-year student.

    The two have been granted bail in the sum of GH¢80,000 each with two sureties; a relative and a government worker not earning less than a net salary of GH¢1,000 a month.

    They were remanded after appearing before the Asokore Mampong District Court in July.

    Since the Asokore Mampong District Court lacks jurisdiction in granting bail on the matter, the lawyers for the two accused persons applied for bail at the High Court and has been granted.

    The substantive matter which is being heard at the Asokore Mampong District Court has been adjourned to 19th September 2022.

  • India’s top court to hear petition against release of 11 men who gang-raped pregnant Muslim

    India’s Supreme Court will hold a hearing on a petition challenging the release last week of 11 Hindu men convicted of the gang rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002 in the western state of Gujarat.

    Dozens of women in Mumbai protested on Tuesday against their release and carried placards demanding justice for the victim, who said last week she had not been told the men would be freed and that it had shaken her faith in justice.
    Her 3-year-old daughter was among those killed during one of India’s worst religious riots. More than 1,000 people died during the violence, most of them Muslims.

    The petition has been brought by a group of women including Subhashini Ali, a politician and member of the Communist Party of India; Revati Laul, an independent journalist; and Mahua Moitra, a member of parliament from the opposition Trinamool Congress Party, attorney Kapil Sibal said.
    Sibal said the court had agreed to hear their public interest litigation petition demanding the men serve their full life sentences. No date has yet been set for the hearing.
    Critics contend that freeing the convicts contradicts the government’s stated policy of supporting women in a country with numerous, well-documented instances of violence against them.

    Authorities in the Panchmahals district of Gujarat released the men last Monday after considering the time they had served after their conviction in 2008 and their behaviour while jailed.
    A senior Gujarat state official overseeing the release said the convicts had completed 14 years in jail and were allowed free after the Supreme Court directed authorities to consider their plea for leniency under a 1992 remission policy.
    The months-long riots were triggered after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims caught fire. Hindus accused Muslims of setting the fire in which 59 pilgrims died, but Muslims said the train attack was part of a conspiracy to target their community. Several Muslims were convicted for the attack on the train.
    Current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was Gujarat’s chief minister at the time of the riots and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party continues to rule the state.
    Source: CNNnews