• End of the case of the sexual assault because of a skirt.

    More than eighteen months after the complaint of a young girl who said she had been assaulted, the case was dismissed.

  • The date of the classification was not specified, the public prosecutor, Yolande Renzi, not wishing to communicate “other elements on this file”.

  • The investigation had stalled, the investigators struggling to corroborate the assertions of the young woman.

A real scandal.

In September 2020, a case shook Strasbourg: a student said she had been attacked by three men in the city because she was wearing a skirt.

More than eighteen months later, the investigation was finally "dismissed" for the reason "unknown author", said a spokesperson for the Strasbourg prosecutor's office, confirming information from Rue89 Strasbourg.

The date of the classification was not specified, the public prosecutor, Yolande Renzi, not wishing to communicate “other elements on this file”.

Right eye swollen, this 22-year-old student, named Elisabeth, had detailed in September 2020 her attack on social networks and in the media.

As she was walking home, she said she met three young men who would have copiously insulted her, one of them saying to her: "Look at this whore in a skirt".

According to her testimony, two of her attackers then immobilized her, the third punching her in the face, before the trio fled.

The case immediately aroused widespread indignation, even in the ranks of the government.

“The facts declared are very serious.

In France we must be able to go out dressed in the street as we want, “said government spokesman Gabriel Attal in particular.

And the Minister Delegate for Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, came to Strasbourg to announce the recruitment of 80 additional "social workers" to "strengthen support" for women victims of "sexist and sexual violence".

Suspicions about the veracity of his testimony

However, the investigation quickly stalled, the investigators struggling to corroborate the assertions of the young woman.

Difficulties which quickly cast doubt on the reality of the aggression of this young student, then close, according to Liberation, to Stras Défense, a Strasbourg group fighting against harassment and street violence "with rightist inclinations", according to the daily.

The student had then suffered a wave of cyberbullying, had denounced in October 2020 her lawyer, Me Pascale Millet, the young woman saying to herself “stunned” that “we can say that she lied”.

The lawyer, now retired, said that Elisabeth had let her know that she no longer wanted to speak.

She “will not respond to anything or anyone.

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