Rugby World Cup: alleged rape of an Irish supporter in Bordeaux

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2023-09-11 14:37:36

On the night of Sunday to Monday, on the sidelines of the Ireland-Romania World Cup match, a 37-year-old Irishwoman claims to have been the victim of a rape in a street in downtown Bordeaux, according to our information confirmed by the prosecution. of Bordeaux, which specifies that an investigation has been opened.

According to the testimony of this football supporter collected by the police shortly after midnight, the victim was rue Rousselle, in the lively Saint-Pierre district, very close to his place of accommodation. According to her testimony, quoted by a police report that Le Parisien consulted, “three individuals seized her and drove her to rue du Puits Descazaux”, not far from there, still in the same sector of the door of Burgundy.

The suspects on the run

According to his statements to the police, helped by Irish police reinforcements in town, the three men would have “vaginally penetrated the victim” before fleeing. The 30-year-old would have “found in the street by a group of Welsh supporters”, specifies the prosecution, then managed to take refuge in her rental apartment where neighbors alerted the police.

On the spot, the police discover a woman “traumatized and prostrate”. She was taken to a hospital for tests. Then she was taken in charge by a victim support association within the framework of the EVVI protocol (personalized assessment of victims).

Departmental security investigators must now find the suspects on the run: they are Caucasian, and one of them had a “very athletic” build. “The investigations are underway and in particular the genetic examinations on the victim and the clothing, the collection of testimonies and the study of the video protection of the neighborhood”, indicates the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office. This Monday at midday, no arrests had taken place.

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