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'Eve-teasing' is a gentle term for sexually harassing girls, in India
Allahu Akbar chants raised in a college in Gujarat’s Anand
after two groups clash over eve-teasing
OpIndia, April 16, 2023:
On April 15, Hindu and Muslim students at a college in Anand in Gujarat clashed after Hindu students objected to eve-teasing by a Muslim student. As per reports, when Hindu students stopped a Muslim student from eve teasing, he brought his friends and started fighting. The Muslim students also raised ‘Allahu Akbar’ slogans on the college premises. The incident took place in the commerce college of Anand.
Reportedly some students were injured during the clash. The police were informed about the incident after they reached the college and controlled the situation. Local newspaper Naya Padkar reported that on the morning of April 15, a group of Hindu students was sitting in the college. They noticed a Muslim student was allegedly harassing a Hindu female student and laughing at her. It has become a regular thing in college. Hindu students rushed to the girl’s rescue. They scolded the Muslim student and warned him not to repeat it.
The Muslim student got agitated and called his friends on the college premises. They raised “Allahu Akbar” slogans on the premises which resulted in the clash. The Muslim student claimed that Hindu students forced him to chant “Jai Shri Ram” and said when he did not raise the slogan, Hindu students harassed him….
Paris: armed with a knife, a man with a ‘particularly disturbing profile’
tries to kidnap a schoolgirl
translated from “Paris : armé d’un couteau, un homme au « profil particulièrement inquiétant » tente d’enlever une collégienne,”
by Caroline Piquet and Denis Courtine,
Le Parisien, April 9, 2023:
The 11-year-old child had been followed on March 28 by this prowler to her home in the 12th arrondissement. She managed to free herself from his embrace and flee. The alleged attacker was arrested on Wednesday.
A 25-year-old man was imprisoned on Friday pending trial in May at the Paris Criminal Court for attempting to abduct a child at gunpoint last week near Nation. This 25-year-old Parisian is suspected of having followed this eleven-year-old schoolgirl to her home, before showing off a knife to force her to follow him.
The facts took place on March 28, a stone’s throw from the Place de la Nation, the scene that day of sporadic clashes between opponents of the pension reform and the police. After class, the pre-teen, of Israeli nationality, does not notice that she is being followed in the street by a man. As she pushes the entrance gate to her residence, rue Fabre-d’Eglantine (12th arrondissement), the prowler rushes in behind her. He follows her into the lobby of her apartment building.
This is where the individual approaches it. He claims to be looking to descend into the cellars of this large building, made up of a hundred apartments. The schoolgirl tries, in vain, to open access to the cellars. Uncomfortable, she decides to go home to the eighth floor. But as she waits for the elevator, the prowler rushes at her. He wraps his arms around her chest, and warns her that he has a knife. The child starts screaming. She manages to push him away and run away.
Already known to justice for rape
Once at home, the child gives the description of the prowler to his father. The latter immediately goes out into the street, and sees the suspect, on the sidewalk opposite. A chase then ensues. A passerby and several mobile gendarmes, engaged in maintaining order, also follow him. But the fugitive manages to pass out in nature.
The prosecution opens an investigation, which it entrusts to the Brigade for the Protection of Minors (BPM) of the Parisian judicial police. The police quickly set out on the trail of a young apprentice pastry chef, Houd O., already very unfavorably known to the courts, for acts of rape, armed robbery, offenses against narcotics legislation, blackmail and threats of death. “At only 25 years old, this man already has a particularly worrying profile”, is alarmed by a source close to the investigation. “After the facts, he would also have returned to the scene, no doubt to track down the girl.”
With that kind of resume, why was he walking around Paris instead of being in jail or deported?
“It’s cold in the back”
“It’s cold in the back,” worries a resident of the building this Saturday. “But that doesn’t surprise me: the gate hasn’t closed for a fortnight. In this vast building of eleven floors and three entrances, no neighbor seems to have heard the child cry. Only a woman would have seen the attacker. “We are going to demand the installation of video protection cameras”, warns a co-owner, a former member of the union council.
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