A 27-year-old Mexican steward, suspected of having raped one of his colleagues in Paris, was presented to a magistrate at the start of the week as part of a discharge, we learned from a police source this Thursday morning. The facts date back to Friday November 1st. The employees of a South American airline decided to meet up, during a stopover in the Parisian capital, to party.
First, the compatriots spent time in a nightclub located in the Bastille district. After this first drunken part, the young man and his fellow flight attendant, aged 31, found themselves in the hotel room of an establishment located on rue de Bercy (12th century). The young woman was drunk. During a sexual encounter, the steward allegedly imposed a non-consensual act on his colleague.
The victim was injured during this penetration. Examined by a practitioner from the medical-judicial unit, she was prescribed two days of total incapacity for work. The flight attendant, immediately after the incident, alerted the police.
The steward was taken into custody for rape in the premises of the second judicial police district. During his hearing, he allegedly denied any imposed act. A consensual sexual relationship, he would have stressed, and, for the act of rape in particular, it would be an “accident”, he would have pleaded.
His defense did not convince the magistrate informed by the judicial police officer. He requested that the airline employee be presented to the Paris prosecutor's office. Contacted this Thursday morning to find out what legal action had been taken, the public prosecutor was not able, for the moment, to answer us.
