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British tourist 'repeatedly raped' by taxi driver after a night out in Paris: Police launch manhunt for attacker
@Source: dailymail.co.uk
A British tourist was allegedly repeatedly raped by a taxi driver following a night out in Paris.
Police have now launched a manhunt for the attacker who reportedly sexually assaulted the young woman in the French capital after she had been out with friends.
The alleged attack took place in Bois de Boulogne on Saturday morning, French newspaper Le Figaro reported.
Local police were alerted to the incident just before 7.30am by a resident who said they had stumbled across the woman 'crying and in a state of shock' in her garden.
Police rushed to the woman's aid with the alleged victim claiming she had ordered a taxi home the night before.
She had just spent the previous evening with her friends out in Paris.
According to local reports, the taxi driver picked the woman up in the capital before driving her to Bois de Boulogne and raping her several times.
Police were informed by the Brit that the alleged attack had only ended after the woman had managed to escape the parked car and run into a nearby garden, a source told the French newspaper.
The man had found the terrified woman in the morning and immediately called the police.
The victim was treated by officials from the Paris fire service and taken to the Garches hospital for routine checks.
Investigations into the incident are currently ongoing into the accusations, with the 1st District of the Judicial Police heading the case, the Paris prosecutor's office confirmed.
The horrific incident comes after a 34-year-old British tourist was raped after being drugged in a Paris bar in August.
The woman, who was not named, was found by her friends who had reported her missing from a night out in the French capital on August 30.
She had gone to dinner with her pals that night, and took one of the group to a hookah bar in the 16th arrondissement at around 4am the following morning after being invited by a man they had met that night.
She told police that her next memory was waking up in an unfamiliar room, before realising she had been raped, according to local media.
Just a month prior, harrowing security footage revealed the moment a visibly distressed Australian woman sought refuge inside a Paris kebab shop after being gang raped – only to be confronted by one of the men who had assaulted her minutes earlier.
French authorities launched a major investigation into the brazen attack, which took place in the early hours of July 20 in the northern Pigalle district, just days before the Olympics began.
The woman, 25, had spent the night before drinking in the bars and clubs around the Moulin Rouge cabaret before the men approached her in an unspecified location.
She told police she was set upon by a pack of five men 'of African appearance' and brutally raped at about 5am before escaping and seeking safety in the nearby Dounia kebab shop.
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