A transgender sex worker was fatally hit by a car in the Bois de Boulogne on the night of Thursday to Friday, a voluntary act according to the first elements of the investigation, we learned from a source close to the investigation. The drama took place around 2:30 am, according to the police source, confirming information from the Parisian .
"A trans Peruvian woman, who came to France last year"
An investigation was opened of the chief of voluntary homicide, entrusted to the 1st district of the Parisian judicial police (1st DPJ), indicated to the AFP the parquet floor of Paris Friday evening. Two witnesses explained to the investigators that a Renault Clio with three people on board voluntarily darkened to pace with the victim who was on the Allée de la Reine-Marguerite, before fleeing. Despite the intervention of the emergency services, the victim died on the spot.
This death comes a year and a half after the death of another Peruvian transgender prostitute, Vanesa Campos, shot dead in August 2018, already in the Bois de Boulogne. According to a statement from the association, the victim was called Jessyca Sarmiento, was "a Peruvian trans woman, who came to France last year". "It had been followed for the first time by an abolitionist prostitution association, which had failed to ensure its care," said the Acceptess-T association to which Jessyca Sarmiento then turned.
231 assaults recorded in 2018
"Last month, she had started to participate in our French lessons, she was studious, applied, and generous, bringing to each session the meal for her comrades. It was + the driving force of the group + according to her teacher" , testifies the association which contacted its family in Peru.
Thirty or so transgender sex workers, most of them Peruvian, gathered on Friday after 11 p.m. at the scene of the tragedy around an altar made up of multiple candles, red and white roses and portraits of Jessyca Sarmiento. "Justice for Jessyca," they chanted several times. A few meters away, a puddle of blood was still visible on the side of the road.
In 2018, "black year" according to the annual report of SOS Homophobia, 231 physical assaults against LGBT people (lesbians, gays, bis, trans) were identified.