FRANCE 24 journalist sexually assaulted in Cairo

[dipsydoodle]

Source: France 24

FRANCE 24 journalist Sonia Dridi filed a police complaint with Egyptian police on Saturday, a day after she was sexually assaulted while reporting on a protest in the capital Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

Dridi had just finished giving a live news report at around 10:30pm on Friday for FRANCE 24’s French language television when a crowd of men teemed around her, shoving and grabbing at her body.

“I was surrounded by my team, so I didn’t feel like I was in any particular danger,” Dridi told FRANCE 24 in a televised interview, saying that the camera crew had attracted a crowd of curious bystanders. “I was able to do my live report but at the end of it the atmosphere was really tense.”

“The crowd encircled us…It was mostly young men, but not only. They started to touch me and I held onto my colleague, who tried to reassure me and hold my attention so we could get out of the crowd as fast as possible,” Dridi added.

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Perverts.

[TrogL]

1. My former partner lived in Cairo. This is SOP there

[Festivito]

2. These perverts are on film then?

It should be easy to identify them in this case.

[lunatica]

4. Sad to say they probably didn't even break any laws

Or if they did no one enforces them. In many countries it would even be considered the woman's fault and her responsibility to get out of the way or not put herself in circumstances where men can grope her.

[Bluestar]

3. I've been to Egypt--this is common there

Female tourists are warned that they could be groped on the streets. It's as if some neanderthal men think they have a right to abuse women just for being female. One of the women in my tour group was groped.

[slackmaster]

5. Barbaric behavior

I'm glad she got out of it alive.

[riderinthestorm]

6. Lets see, is this a culture that reveres women so much they must be shrouded

in order to "protect" them? So an uppity western woman is fair game for sexual assault?

Or is it a religious thing where the dogma indicates women are so "special" they must be segregated with a second class status? So an uppity western woman who dares to mingle with the men is fair game for sexual assault?

Or is it a patriarchal thing where women are pieces of meat? So an uppity western woman who dares to mingle with the men is fair game for sexual assault?

No wait. This happens to ALL women in Egypt I'm told.

I'll take patriarchy on steroids for $500 Alex....

[geek tragedy]

7. That is how Egyptian men roll--sexual harassment and assault is extremely

common there. That's their culture.