Two policemen in Paris charged with rape of a tourist in the police HQ
Preliminary charges have been made against two of the four elite French police officers accused of raping a Canadian tourist at their Paris headquarters, legal sources said Sunday.
Under French law, preliminary charges do not necessarily lead to prosecution, but France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a statement sent to AFP that the two officers would "face the full consequences" if they were found guilty.
Two others accused over the alleged rape were released on Saturday without charge, though one has been given the status of “assisted witness” – something of a grey area in French law denoting a person somewhere between an ordinary witness and someone facing a formal charge.
All four officers, members of France’s elite BRI unit that fights gang crime, were accused of raping a 34-year-old Canadian woman after meeting her in a Paris pub on Tuesday.
French media say the woman agreed to follow the policemen to the “36 quai des Orfèvres” - the HQ of Paris’s criminal police dubbed France’s “Scotland Yard” – where the alleged rape took place.
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There is some suspicion of evidence-tampering.
