A Jordanian national with three deportation orders who had been known to authorities under 13 identities has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman in the emergency room at a Parisian hospital late last month.
The alleged sexual assault, which took place on the night of October 27th to the 28th at the Cochin hospital in Paris, saw the 22-year-old Jordanian man, who was patient at the medical facility, sexually assault and rape a 34-year-old female patient who had been admitted to the emergency department following a traumatic brain injury, Le Figaro reports.
It was around 4 a.m. when 34-year-old Isabelle, who had been semi-unconscious state due to the medications she had received for her injury, woke up in pain as the man was raping her. Immediately, she cried out for help and a nurse quickly intervened, scaring the perpetrator away.
The perpetrator, who had also stolen the victim’s bank card, somehow managed to leave the hospital premises, despite staff members attempting to prevent him from doing so. Roughly an hour later, however, police managed to track down and arrest the alleged rapist after he had purchased items from the grocery store with Isabelle’s bank card. Once in police custody the individual denied having raped the victim.
While Le Figaro reported that the alleged perpetrator had been subject to three obligations to leave French territory (OQTF) under three separate identities, the French news outlet BFMTV reported that he was known to authorities under 13 identities. Despite being subject to three deportation orders, the Jordanian national had a request for asylum pending at the time of the assault.
Three days after the alleged sexual assault took place, the alleged perpetrator was charged with rape committed by a person under the influence of drugs, theft, and fraud. He was subsequently indicted and placed in judicial detention where he remains.
While speaking with the news agency AFP, Laura Abecassis, the victim’s lawyer, said: “It’s a double trauma for my client, the rape itself and the circumstances. She wants to go all the way, to understand how these extremely serious facts could have happened like that in a public service.”
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) sharply criticized a recent extension of the Cochin emergency department that wasn’t accompanied by “an increase in staff, which further isolates staff and patients.” The hospital, meanwhile, confirmed that “a precise analysis of the chronology of events is underway internally in order to shed light on the precise circumstances of this attack.”
The incident comes days after a French court sentenced an 24-year-old male migrant who had been previously issued deportation orders with a four-year prison sentence after convicting him of sexually assaulting two teenage boys in Paris, as The European Conservative previously reported.
In October, Algerian migrant, who was also subject to an Obligation to Leave French Territory (OQTF), kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered a 12-year-old Parisian girl called Lola.
In the wake of Lola’s kidnapping and murder, government data revealed that in the first half of 2021, less than 4% of illegal immigrants from Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco with deportation orders were successfully expelled by Macron’s government.
