The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation entrusted to the judicial police. A 20-year-old woman explains that she was approached by three men on Sunday, February 4 in the early morning as she was returning from a night out, according to the media [ . Her attackers then fled with her phone. An investigation for rape has been entrusted to the 1st district of the judicial police (1st DPJ), confirmed to *Figaro* by the Paris prosecutor’s office.
A similar incident had occurred in Paris in August 2022. Between January 1 and August 31, 2023, 280 rapes and sexual assaults in public places in the capital were recorded by the Paris police prefecture.