Two French police officers suspended after alleged rape
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The courthouse in Bobigny, a northeastern Paris suburb. The rape allegedly happened at a court in the town where the woman was in custody.
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- Two French police officers were detained and suspended for allegedly raping a 26-year-old woman in custody at a court in Bobigny, near Paris.
- The alleged assault occurred overnight between October 28 and 29 after the woman was brought in for “acts of parental neglect," according to prosecutor Eric Mathais.
- The IGPN is investigating the incident, which follows other rape cases in France, including one where an officer will stand trial in 2026.
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BOBIGNY, France - Two French police officers have been detained and suspended over allegedly raping a young woman while she was in custody at a court, a prosecutor and police chief said on Oct 30.
The woman who accused the two officers said the alleged assault took place overnight Oct 28 to 29 in Bobigny, a town north of Paris, prosecutor Eric Mathais said.
She had been brought before the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office for “acts of parental neglect”, he added.
The woman is 26, while the two accused officers – who “have not been police officers for long” – are 23 and 35, according to a source close to the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The policemen were being held in custody on Oct 30, Mr Mathais said.
Paris police prefect Patrice Faure said in a post on X that he had “immediately suspended” the two officers.
The officers filled out an administrative report laying down their version of events, a second source close to the case said, also speaking on the condition of anonymity.
France’s internal police investigation service, the IGPN, is looking into the case.
In a separate incident, a police officer is due to stand trial in 2026 for raping a woman inside a police station in the Seine-et-Marne region, also near Paris.
The plaintiff, an undocumented woman of Angolan nationality, reported being raped twice by the officer in 2023.
She had gone to the station to file a domestic violence complaint, according to French daily Liberation.
France has been rocked by a series of high-profile rape cases in recent months that have sparked a debate about consent.
Its Parliament on Oct 29 adopted a Bill defining rape as any non-consensual sexual act, a vote hailed by supporters as a move from “a culture of rape to a culture of consent”. AFP
