We're scared to go out at night alone and short skirts mean unwanted sexual attention: Parisian women reveal safety fears after gang-rape of Australian tourist and say sex attack is 'catastrophic' to France's image days before Olympics

The horrifying onslaught connected an Australian tourer successful Paris past play is conscionable nan latest alleged pack rape connected nan streets of nan French capital.

In nan aftermath of nan shocking news, Parisian women person revealed their information fears, while constabulary person voiced concerns successful nan tally up to the Olympics.

Meanwhile, cops are still hunting 5 men thought to beryllium progressive successful nan assault, which took spot successful nan early hours of Saturday greeting successful nan bluish Pigalle territory and horrifically echoes a adjacent onslaught connected a British tourer conscionable past month.

Following nan sadistic onslaught which has sent shockwaves done nan city, MailOnline said to respective women successful Pigalle. The recurring consequence was 1 of disbelief and scary - and interest astir nan information of being retired connected nan city's streets aft dark.

Aurelia Desnot, a 21-year-old student, said: 'The rape of that mediocre young female connected Friday nighttime has been catastrophic to nan image of France. I would not spell retired precocious astatine nighttime connected my ain successful this area because I don't want to put myself successful danger.

'There are ever men hanging astir precocious astatine nighttime watching women.

'When I sewage out, I spell prepared. I cognize which way I americium going connected and I cognize really I americium going to get home. And maine and my friends cheque connected each different to make judge we person sewage location safely.'

The investigation into nan onslaught is underway arsenic constabulary resources are being stretched successful Paris, which has ramped up information measures arsenic millions of visitors from nan UK and overseas hole to descend connected nan city's sporting venues. 

As nan location of nan internationally renowned Moulin Rouge cabaret club, Pigalle, attracts tens of thousands of visitors each time - but it is besides location to seedy activity shops and massage parlours.

Despite nan area's wide cognition towards sex, female consciousness for illustration they person to screen up aliases look unwanted attraction from men successful nan area.

Manon Guillon, 22, a receptionist, told really young women person to see what they are wearing erstwhile they spell retired successful definite parts of nan city.

She said: 'As a woman, you person to beryllium mindful of what you are wearing erstwhile you go, particularly successful this area.

'If your tummy is showing, aliases you are wearing a short skirt past you get a batch of unwanted intersexual attention.

'This is nan centre of Paris but location are ever men present looking astatine women.'

Emma, 24, a student, said she was not amazed that a female had been attacked successful nan area.

She said: 'It is simply a unspeakable point to person happened to this woman, but I americium not surprised. Pigalle is simply a bad area.

'If I americium successful this portion of municipality precocious astatine nighttime past I return other information measures. I return an Uber home, alternatively than locomotion done nan streets, aliases return that Metro.

'I support a watch astir really is astir me.'

Argentinian tourer Georgia, 30, said she would not dream astir going retired successful Pigalle astatine night.

She said: 'This is simply a bad area. There are ever men hanging astir watching women. I would not consciousness safe present precocious astatine night.'

Others were little concerned. A personnel of a group of visitors from California told MailOnline: 'I don't consciousness that it's peculiarly unsafe here. Bad things hap successful each parts of nan world. I don't deliberation it's immoderate worse than immoderate different city.'   

Despite nan heightened security, the Australian female was allegedly attacked by nan group of men successful an area little than 3 miles from nan Stade de France - the epicentre to nan games which unfastened connected Friday. 

The alleged unfortunate had spent Friday nighttime drinking successful nan bars and clubs astir nan Moulin Rouge cabaret - an area celebrated visitors - earlier nan men approached her. 

She told constabulary she was group upon by a group of 5 men 'of African appearance' and brutally raped astatine astir 5am earlier escaping and seeking information successful nan adjacent Dounia kebab shop.

Minutes later, she was approached by 1 of nan men she said had attacked her, who harrowing video footage shows approaching her and patting her connected nan back. 

A diner past confronts nan alleged rapist, taking a plaything arsenic unit jump successful to break propulsion them isolated earlier nan man past leaves nan restaurant.

The footage is apt to shape captious grounds arsenic French authorities analyse nan alarming incident.

The woman, who was described arsenic having 'her dress wrong out', besides claimed her mobile telephone had been stolen successful nan brazen attack.

She was said to beryllium 'disoriented and incapable to speak a connection of French' arsenic she told constabulary what had happened, and was reportedly incapable to springiness clear details.

Last month, a British female was allegedly pack raped successful different area successful cardinal Paris - conscionable minutes distant from wherever Saturday's onslaught took place.

The tourer was recovered crying arsenic she stumbled done nan streets of Paris' 1st arrondissement aft she was attacked and subsequently robbed precocious astatine night, a constabulary root said.

The onslaught took spot aft she had near a performance astatine nan Olympia hallway - 1 of hundreds of events held crossed France connected June 21 to people nan yearly 'Fête de la Musique' festival.

The unfortunate - who cannot beryllium named for ineligible reasons - was picked up by constabulary and firefighters and taken to nan Cochin infirmary to acquisition aesculapian examinations.

She later told constabulary she was accosted by respective men and pulled to a secluded area wherever they raped her and stole her phone, according to Le Figaro.

In different depraved onslaught earlier successful June, a 12-year-old Jewish woman was raped successful an abandoned storage by 3 youths.  

The woman from Courbevoie, successful nan Hauts-de-Seine suburb northwest of nan French capital, told constabulary that she had been raped by nan boys - 1 of whom she said was her ex-boyfriend.

Investigators heard really nan pack grabbed her while she was sitting pinch her fellow and dragged her to a hangar successful nan adjacent La Defense territory to transportation retired nan attack.

A constabulary root said nan youths forced her into activity acts 'while uttering decease threats and anti-Semitic remarks'.

The ex-boyfriend reportedly accused nan unfortunate of 'hiding her Jewish religion' from him.

In January, an American female told constabulary she was 'raped and near astatine nan broadside of nan road' while visiting Paris to be Fashion Week.

French regular Le Parisien said that nan tourer was raped by 2 men aft taking narcotics that 1 of them had fixed her.

According to nan newspaper, nan battle happened successful a location that nan female was subsequently incapable to locate. 

The female said that nan 2 men brought her to that home, wherever she was assaulted and past forced backmost into nan car and dumped connected nan road.

Multiple Parisian women person besides reported being attacked successful an area known arsenic a crime hotspot - conscionable a 10 infinitesimal thrust from nan Stade de France, which is hosting nan athletics events, and nan Center Aquatique which is hosting overmuch of nan swimming.

​​Place Auguste Baron successful nan north-east of nan French superior has saw 2 women attacked and threatened pinch rape successful 2 days successful May, according to French media. 

The suspects successful each lawsuit are said to person been ace addicts.

A section told La Parisien that addicts are coming passim Place Auguste Baron, and said that for each residents, 'assaults and moreover rapes' are a truth of regular life.

A fewer days earlier, successful nan aforesaid area, a female who had conscionable dropped her children disconnected astatine schoolhouse was stepping pinch a neighbour erstwhile she was attacked by a man who threatened to rape her.

Municipal constabulary officers, who were connected surveillance adjacent nan school, are said to person intervened.

In 2023, location were 93 rapes committed successful nationalist places successful Paris, pinch a akin number successful 2022.

According to figures collected by nan Paris constabulary prefecture, among these perpetrators of rape successful 2023, 20 were already known to nan police.

Of nan rapes committed successful nationalist spaces, nan mostly were committed by men, astir of whom were said to beryllium supplier addicts, unemployed and homeless, Europe 1 reports citing police.

Officer Grégory Joron, wide caput of nan Unité constabulary union, said that 1 rape takes spot successful nan Paris area each 3 days.

The prevalence of nan attacks 'clearly' shows that it is 'a arena that we cannot extinguish,' he said backmost successful April.

He warned that nan business astir nan metropolis was peculiarly concerning arsenic nan summertime approached.

'These are expected to beryllium places that person zero per cent crime since we are waiting to invited millions of visitors for nan Olympic Games,' he said. 'But for nan infinitesimal these are still places wherever unfortunately, we still person a batch of problems.'

He said that location was a consequence to women who locomotion unsocial 'after a definite time, astatine night,' whether that beryllium from activity aliases a nighttime out.

Saturday's onslaught will undoubtedly springiness emergence to fears for women visiting and surviving successful Paris - moreover arsenic location is simply a historically ample constabulary beingness connected nan streets up of nan Olympics.

Some 45,000 cops person joined nan mammoth information cognition for nan games, pinch equipped guards operating nan streets and metallic barriers lining nan Seine.

Some 1,700 members of nan British constabulary unit are already supporting French officers successful Paris and Marseille arsenic good arsenic UK sniffer dogs that person been handpicked by French authorities.

With nan games group to beryllium nan astir heavy policed successful history, questions will now beryllium being asked astir really specified a convulsive onslaught could person taken spot connected Paris' streets pinch conscionable days to spell to nan opening ceremony.