The victim, a 23-year-old tourist, told the police that she had been attacked near a bush by a man with a knife. A suspect has been arrested. He was still in police custody on Tuesday afternoon.
Sordid crime in the night from Monday to Tuesday almost at the foot of the symbol of Paris. A 23-year-old English tourist filed a complaint of rape at the police station. The facts would have taken place shortly before midnight, on the Champ-de-Mars. According to the very first information collected on the spot, the young woman, a little drunk, was with a friend when she was seized with a pressing desire. So she went behind a bush.

It was then that a man allegedly threw himself on her and began to rape her. The victim tried to push him away. The attacker pulled out a knife. And it was at gunpoint that he then succeeded before fleeing. A crew from the anti-crime brigade rushed to the scene. The victim confided to the officials that she was herself a British police officer. She had come to Paris for two days with her friend for a vacation. The tourist was then taken care of by the firefighters.

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