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A 27-year-old Tunisian migrant living illegally in France was indicted in Paris on Tuesday for attempted rape while intoxicated and has since been remanded in custody.
He is accused of attempting to sexually assault a 67-year-old woman in the street near Gare du Nord in the 10th arrondissement in the early hours of Oct. 5. The woman was saved at the last moment thanks to the intervention of a couple who interrupted the attack and chased down the suspect.
As reported by Le Parisien, at around 2 a.m., the woman was returning to her accommodation after attending a wedding. After arriving at Gare du Nord by public transport, she became disoriented in an unfamiliar neighborhood and asked strangers for directions.
The accused obliged, but as they walked down Rue d’Alsace, his demeanor suddenly changed. According to a source close to the case cited by Le Parisien, “the young man pulled her by the hair, struck her in the face, and threw her to the ground. He tried to tear off her clothes and took down his pants.”
The woman screamed for help, alerting a couple passing by who rushed to intervene, causing the attacker to flee while hastily pulling up his pants and stealing the victim’s watch. The pair, joined by a man on a scooter, chased him down.
The female passerby was the first to catch up with the perpetrator, at which point “he turned and touched her chest,” said the same source. The man was eventually detained by the group, who called the authorities.
“He was somewhat roughed up and likely took some blows before being restrained,” the source added.
Police quickly arrived and arrested the man, who was taken into custody. During questioning, the suspect, who is in France illegally, claimed he had been drunk and remembered nothing of the night’s events. Witnesses, however, insist he was preparing to commit a rape.
The victim’s stolen watch was recovered, and she was granted five days of total incapacity for work.
Sexual assaults by young foreigners against elderly women are growing increasingly more common across Western Europe.
This week alone, court proceedings began in Austria of a 26-year-old Afghan national accused of raping an 82-year-old Viennese woman who suffered from dementia. The migrant rapist had been the pensioner’s care assistant at her home, and the son of the victim had to watch the rape in real-time on his cellphone after installing cameras inside her apartment.
“My client’s psyche was completely destroyed by the atrocity committed against her. She has lost the will to live,” the victim’s lawyer said in a poignant address to the court.
Similarly, this week in France, a Guinean migrant living in the country illegally was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the rape of an 83-year-old woman during a daytime burglary at her home in La Penne-sur-Huveaune last year.
The attack took place on Feb. 17, 2024, at about 2 p.m., when the victim, identified in court as Odette, heard a noise in her house and went to investigate. According to testimony read in court, she came face to face with a man described as “African-looking,” wearing a black hat and a “very flashy” orange jacket. The intruder allegedly demanded money; when she said she had none, he reportedly replied, “You know what’s going to happen.” Prosecutors say he then raped her, leaving with a small amount of valuables.
And in Belgium last month, a Belgian pensioner collapsed and died during a heated exchange with a group of youths squatting in his French holiday home, after the youth gang had threatened to gang rape his wife, slit her throat, and then kill him.
“They killed him with words, and if nothing is done, in a year they will kill with a knife,” Philippe, a close friend of the victim, told local media.
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