A British journalist was the sufferer of an tried rape whereas jogging in Beirut, in accordance with native safety forces.
The unnamed reporter had been working by the Lebanese capital’s waterfront when her attacker allegedly ambushed her in entrance of the Kidzmondo kids’s amusement centre within the Biel space on Wednesday, March 29.
Officers later stated the attacker, who they stated was a Syrian man, confessed to finishing up 30 comparable assaults amid questioning.
The Lebanese Inner Safety Forces who made the arrest launched {a photograph} of the unnamed alleged attacker, including that they had arrested the suspect for ‘tried rape’.
An official assertion launched through Twitter on Sunday, April 2, learn: ‘The Data Division at report pace arrested the suspect of the assault and tried rape of a British journalist within the waterfront space in Beirut close to KIDS MONDO, which passed off on 3/29/2023.
‘The investigation is underway below the supervision of the competent judiciary.’
Photograph exhibits the Syrian man who allegedly raped a British journalist in Beirut, Lebanon
An illustrative photograph of Beirut waterfront in Lebanon, the place a Syrian man tried to rape a British journalist, undated. He tried to rape her when she was jogging
The id and current situation of the British journalist are presently unclear however native studies advised she was taken to hospital.
An replace from the Lebanese Safety Forces stated the attacker ‘harassed and tried to rape [the journalist], as he tore her garments, beat her, tried to suffocate her, and fled on a bicycle’.
They claimed the perpetrator upon arrest informed officers that ‘for about eight months he has been chasing ladies with the intention of harassing them and touching their our bodies, particularly ladies of overseas nationalities’.
The Union of Progressive Girls, a non-profit organisation primarily based in Lebanon that advocates for ladies’s rights and goals to stamp out gender-based violence, stated in response to the case:
The try to rape a younger girl in Beirut is a wake-up name for all girls and ladies in Lebanon – not solely in Biel, however in all Lebanese streets, alleys, retailers, and neighbourhoods the place there are not any lights, no safety personnel, no formally designated secure locations for working towards sports activities hobbies, and no surveillance cameras.’
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