2023-09-11 16:58:32
2023 Rugby World Cup in FrancefileA 37-year-old Irish supporter claims to have been the victim of rape by three men on the night of Sunday to Monday September 11, in the city center of Bordeaux. The prosecution has announced that it has opened an investigation.
The Bordeaux prosecutor’s office confirmed on Monday, September 11 the opening of an investigation into the alleged rape of an Irish supporter. The facts would have taken place “around midnight” in the night from Sunday to Monday, according to the testimony of this 37-year-old football supporter, who followed the qualifying match for Euro 2024 between Ireland and the -Down, in Dublin.
The same evening, the South West city hosted the Rugby World Cup match between Wales and Fiji, while the Irish rugby team had won their first match of the competition against Romania the day before at the Bordeaux stadium.
The attackers on the run
According to information from Parisian, which cites the police report, this supporter was allegedly seized by three men in the lively Saint-Pierre district, in the historic center of Bordeaux, before being taken to rue du Puits Descazaux, near the Porte de Bourgogne. The attackers would have “vaginally penetrated the victim”, according to the statements of the latter to the police.
She would have been left on the sidewalk after the alleged perpetrators, still wanted, fled. She was then found “by a group of Welsh supporters”, specifies the prosecution. The Irish supporter was quickly heard in the accommodation she rented in the neighborhood “by Irish police officers who were providing reinforcements in town” this weekend, during the Ireland-Romania match. Still according to the Parisian, they found the alleged victim “traumatized and prostrate”. Subsequently, the woman was taken care of by the Bordeaux emergency reception center for victims of assault and a victim support association, “in English”.
According to RTL, no arrests have taken place, for the moment. Biological samples have been taken and others are also in progress on the victim’s clothing. The images from the neighborhood’s video protection cameras are also being studied in order to find the perpetrators, again according to the prosecution.
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