A Jordanian migrant, Faïd A., was sentenced to 11 years in prison, plus a ban on entering French territory, for the rape of an unconscious woman inside a hospital emergency room. The court found that his actions were premeditated.
The case began two years ago, on Oct. 27, 2022, when the 34-year-old victim was attending a party on the Seine after a day filled with job interviews. She became quite intoxicated after barely eating anything all day, and at around 1:00 a.m., she walked off a party barge, the Rosa Bonheur, and hit her head on the dock, losing consciousness. Two men approached to help, but one of them, 24-year-old Faid A., apparently looked at the woman “like a piece of meat,” according to the other man, who was the owner and also a bouncer at the party barge.
This is the moment Jordanian rapist Faid A. snuck into the ER room of his 34-year-old French victim and brutally raped her in Cochin Hospital in Paris.
"Now, I am afraid when I sleep. I am afraid of what will happen to me when I wake up," the victim testified in court.
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“He looked at her like a starving man. It was at that moment, while waiting for the firefighters, that I had an exchange with him, telling him to leave, because I knew very well what he intended to do. He smiled at me and told me that if I touched him, he would call the police,” said the owner, according to French newspaper Le Figaro.
After the woman was transported to an emergency room at Cochin Hospital, Faid A. remained near the party barge and “fainted” shortly thereafter. The lawyers for the woman argued this was a ploy in order to be transported to the same hospital as his victim. Once at the hospital, the victim woke up to discover the man had pushed several fingers inside her.
