A man who sits on the jump seat in front of her then a few words.
First of all inappropriate compliments before the gestures come.
Thus began the assault on Safietou, a resident of Seine-et-Marne, now 23 years old.
The scene takes place one day in December 2018 on metro line 7.
“It wasn't my usual trip,” recounts the young woman, who still remembers every detail.
He said to her first: “You are beautiful.
He runs his tongue over her lips.
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Then he begins to caress his crotch ostensibly.
Safietou takes out his cell phone and films.
Especially since his nightmare does not stop at this exhibition.
Because the young woman leaves the train to follow a correspondence by line 1. The man follows her.
She is stressed.
In the escalators, he sticks her, holds her arm, suggests that she go for a drink.
Finally, she manages to extricate herself from it and shares the video on social networks, thinking she is showing "one more pervert".
But quickly the counters get carried away, there are more than 32,000 shares and, above all, testimonies arrive concerning the aggressor whose face we see.
Because man is not at his first attempt.
He has already been filmed in line C of the RER, on line D. His name is Munir, is 49 years old and is from Bangladesh.
"Another, once, touched my leg"
Another woman who came across Safietou's video had also lodged a complaint against the same stalker, who would also have masturbated in front of her.
But it is the testimony of a man saying that his younger sister was the victim of this man who pushes Safietou to file a complaint.
“It wasn't the first time that I had been the victim of harassment,” she says.
It was even every week to have people rubbing shoulders with me.
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VIDEO. Safietou dared to film her attacker in the metro as he masturbated in front of her
Easily found, the harasser of line 7 was sentenced in June 2019 to 8 months suspended prison sentence for “sexual exhibition” and “sexist contempt”.
After that, Safietou had trouble getting back to transport: “I didn't want to go out.
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"Many women do not report these facts"
Louise, 26, also crossed paths with a slipper on October 8, 2019 on line 13. She too is used to meeting these men whose hobby is to take advantage of the crowds to rub their cocks against women .
“It happened to me about five times,” says Louise.
I take line 13 a lot. ”That day, his attacker was around 25 years old, he was 1.85 m tall.
And this new time is one too many times for her.
“I blamed myself for not having said anything at the time, for having been flabbergasted.
I would have blamed myself even more not to file a complaint, ”rewinds the young woman.
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She goes to the police station of the 12th arrondissement in Paris to file a complaint after being turned away from the police station at Saint-Lazare station (Paris, 9th), which was overwhelmed at this time of the day.
But Louise wants at all costs to file a complaint to get rid of this story.
“My idea was, by filing a complaint, to say that it happened.
I wanted it to be known.
I was angry.
Many women do not report these facts and the numbers for sexual assault on transport are certainly below the truth.
She has since returned to the metro without being assaulted.