A Quebec tourist, named Xuan (name changed), gave a detailed account on Monday before the Nanterre criminal court of the sexual assault she says she suffered on August 28, 2022, in La Défense, in the early morning, as she got off a Noctilien night bus. Two men, Ahmed K. and Oussama R., are on trial for rape.
According to her statement, Xuan had taken the Noctilien night bus from the Marais district to get to her hotel. On board, she noticed Ahmed K.’s persistent behavior towards another passenger and intervened. “He was undressing her with his eyes, and she was clearly saying no,” she recounted. Confronted, the man insulted her. Thinking the situation had calmed down, Xuan sat back down, but the man continued to stare at her.
As she got off the bus, Oussama R. pressed himself against her and made advances. Xuan told him she wasn’t interested and revealed that she was undergoing gender transition. “I showed him my Adam’s apple to explain that I was a man,” she explained. Despite this, the two men followed her. A third man briefly intervened to try and separate them, before Ahmed K. and Oussama R. caught up with the young woman a few minutes later.
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