Pregnant Woman Raped On Train

This from Novopress, dated August 23:

A young woman four months pregnant was raped in a train. The attack occurred Sunday morning on the Coulommiers - Gare de l'Est line of the SNCF (French National Rail). The victim, in her thirties, was alone in the car with her attacker who threatened her with a knife pointed at her abdomen.

Thanks to the video surveillance tapes the railroad police brigade was able to arrest, 48 hours later, the alleged rapist in Seine-et-Marne. The young man, 18, of Tunisian origin, is being held. This story is a reminder to us of the murder of Anne-Lorraine Schmitt, stabbed to death by a repeat sexual offender, four years ago in a car of the Regional Rail.

Two comments from Novopress readers:

- I can find no words for this "act", or for him, if it turns out that he belongs to the human, animal, vegetable or mineral world.

"Those" people or those things, call them what you will, are particularly innovative when it comes to the horrible, the odious, the unnameable, the barbaric. I admit that I have limits within myself, if the day should ever come that events force me to commit barbarous acts.

- Swim back to your village!


Above, a photo of the alleged rapist, named Ali, from Le Parisien. The article accompanying the photo provides a few more details (the woman's name was changed):

Sunday, around 6:30 a.m., Daniella, 27, from Rodez in the department of Aveyron, got into the Transilien at the Coulommiers station, en route to the Gare de l'Est in Paris. At that early hour, there are few passengers in the cars. The young woman, a teacher and four months pregnant, was spending a few days vacationing in the Parisian region before going home. She did not notice the young man seated not far from her. Suddenly, he left his seat when the train doors closed after the Guérard-La Celle-sur-Morin stop. The man took out a knife and placed it at the victim's throat. The woman, terrorized, immediately explained that she was expecting a baby. But the aggressor did not release his grip. He raped her for the first time before dragging her to the toilet. "The rapist took the time to break her cell phone to prevent her from calling," said one source. "He then raped her again several times before arriving at the Gare de l'Est."

The rapist then took another train for Meaux. In shock, the young teacher went to the police post located in the Gare de l'Est. "When he was arrested, he was carrying a knife similar to the one described by the victim, confided a person close to the case. He was also wearing the clothing she described. He was not known to the police."

Unlike the readers of Novopress, those at Le Parisien are anxious to point out that his origins, and the origins of the woman, have nothing to do with it. He's just a criminal, you see. They reiterate that nobody cares that he is Tunisian. One person even deplores that France has not learned the lessons of the past. I assume he means that France is as racist as ever. Well, the poor woman was not a racist. She let him rape her.

There was no word on her physical condition.