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Emily Spanton says she was assaulted at the Paris police
headquarters

(NEWSER) – Two French policemen have been convicted of gang rape
and sentenced to seven years in prison after a Canadian tourist
reported being assaulted at the Paris police headquarters, the
city's public prosecutor's office said Thursday. The case
centered on an assault at 36 Quai des Orfevres, a famous address
depicted in many crime movies and novels, the AP reports. Emily
Spanton said she met a group of officers in an Irish pub in
April 2014 and they invited her for a night tour of police
headquarters. There, she claimed she was forced to drink whisky,
perform oral sex, and was raped several times.

The AP does not usually identify alleged victims of sexual
violence unless they agree to be named or come forward
voluntarily and identify themselves, as Spanton did. Spanton
first said that she had been raped by four officers before
revising her testimony to three. Only two policemen have been
brought to court. The officers, both members of the BRI force
that specializes in serious criminal cases such as armed
robbery, denied any wrongdoing and claim the alleged victim
consented to sexual interactions during a booze-fueled evening.
Judges initially threw out the case but the Paris prosecutor and
Spanton won their appeal to have it brought before a jury. (Five
street performers were kidnapped and gang raped in India.)

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gang-rape-of-
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