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France: Woman ‘stops gang rape by biting attacker’s penis’

A woman in northern France managed to fight off a gang of sex attackers by biting the penis of one the men.

Published: 21 January 2016 16:54 CET

France: Woman 'stops gang rape by biting attacker's penis'

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The incident occurred in the northern France city of Amiens inside a small apartment, reported the local Courrier Picard newspaper.

The woman, aged 30, had been set upon by two men on Saturday afternoon, while a third man was nearby. The paper noted that alcohol had been involved.

The woman is believed to have managed to stop the attack by biting one of the men on the penis, until she drew blood, reported the paper.

In response, one of the men is understood to have struck the woman, hard enough to leave her in hospital in a “serious condition”.

She filed a complaint for rape that evening.

One of the men, who was born in 1993, is facing charges of rape, while his accomplice, born in 1984, is facing charges of complicity.

The third man, suspected of being one of the rapists, remains at large.

Police have launched an investigation.

French police search for gunmen after shootings in Paris suburb

Two men were shot dead near a cultural centre in the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb, to the northeast of the French capital on Sunday evening, less than 48 hours after another fatal shooting nearby, according to authorities.

The victims of Sunday’s shooting were aged 35 and 31 and known for violence and drug trafficking, according to police sources.

One was shot in the head, with two suspects fleeing on foot, leaving the magazine of an automatic weapon and 18 spent bullet casings behind them.

The second man was hit six times.

The town of 52,000 people was on edge, mayor Stephane Blanchet told AFP, saying people were living in fear of another shooting.

“There is a huge feeling of fear, that it could start again and [that someone could be hit by] a stray bullet,” Blanchet said.

“If it had been a beautiful sunny day, there would have been more people outside,” when the latest shooting happened, he said.

In the first shooting, a 28-year-old man was killed on a nearby housing estate early on Saturday, with three others wounded.

In March, French President Emmanuel Macron announced an ‘XXL’ cleanup of drug trafficking in the southern port city of Marseille and other towns across France, including Sevran, where the drugs trade has been blamed for a spate of death and violence.

One drug dealing hotspot in Sevran was ‘eradicated’ in that operation, police said.

“We are aware that when we do that, we destabilise traffic, we create greed and sometimes there are clashes,” Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said on Sunday.

“But we will still continue,” he added.

Local La France insoumise MP Clementine Autain accused the government of abandoning some areas, and said the suburb, “did not have the police presence of other areas”.

Drug-related violence has often flared in Sevran – considered a hub of drug trafficking in France – with the then-mayor calling for UN peacekeepers to be deployed there in 2011.

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