Overview
- The two officers’ time in police custody was extended on Friday, according to a source close to the case.
- Both officers acknowledged sexual relations with the 26-year-old detainee but asserted they were consensual, after she reported two rapes overnight on Oct. 28–29.
- The officers were suspended from duty and an administrative investigation was opened by the Paris police prefecture.
- France’s internal affairs unit, the IGPN, is investigating alleged rapes by persons abusing the authority of their functions.
- The Bobigny prosecutor was removed from the case in favor of the Paris prosecutor; the officers are aged 23 and 35, and the woman had been presented to court over alleged parental neglect.