A 25-year-old South American tourist (country and name withheld for her safety) was gang-raped in a Rio de Janeiro nightclub during a stopover in the Brazilian city on her way to Bahia, where she intended to spend a few days. . The young student reported the case to the police and the Women’s Commission of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro, Alerge, who decided to help her given the indifference with which the victim said she was treated at the club.
According to a complaint formalized on Tuesday by DEAM, the Specialized Women’s Assistance Unit of the Rio de Janeiro Police, after the brutal sexual assault she suffered, the young woman sought help from security guards at the Portal Club nightclub in Lapa. , the city center, and was ignored by them. The site security guards and other employees whom DEAM said she contacted for help did not call the police, and she left the site in complete despair and confusion, as did the friend who accompanied her on the trip to Brazil.
In a statement she filed with the police, the young woman said that since she had to make a stop in Rio, she decided to stay in the city for a few hours and ended up going to a club on the night from Saturday to Sunday. . There he met the Brazilian and agreed to go with him to a more reserved area of the club early on Sunday morning to get comfortable.
But in this more reserved area there were several men, apparently summoned by the Brazilian woman, with whom she drank and with whom she agreed to go to where the tourist was brutally raped for a long time in a group. The girl cannot say exactly how many men raped her, she only knows that there were many of them, since she lost consciousness several times, probably because they slipped something into her drink before going to a more secluded place.
After spending many panicked hours in a hotel with her friend, not knowing what to do, she was advised to report the crime to the Women’s Commission, and, accompanied by the chairman of this commission, MP Renata Souza, she went to the police. Tuesday. Agents immediately went to the field and are trying to obtain images inside and outside the club, as well as subpoenaing employees and people responsible for the site.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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