Women in Geneva, beaten – five of the French court

Ten days in a coma – women in Geneva, beaten – five of the French before GerichtDie Switzerland was shocked after the fact, in several cities there were protests: Now has begun in France, the process against the attackers, the five women’s hospital beat Mature.red/sda3 Kommentare3Einen day after the attack on the five young women in front of a Club, dozens of counter-violence protested in Geneva. (Archive image)to photo: Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone

In Thonon-les-Bains (F) on Tuesday commenced the process against five of the French, the accused, in the summer of 2018, in Geneva, five young women are brutally beaten. One of them was in the sequence during ten days in a coma.

The case was on 8. August 2018, shortly after five o’clock in the morning, at the output of a Geneva night eatery place. The five women, then between 22 and 33 years, were attacked by a group of men on the open road and seemingly without reason, beaten up.

Two of the women had severe head injuries to the hospital to be brought. One of them woke up only ten days after the attack out of the coma.

The brutal violence against women shocked the whole of Switzerland. On the day after the attack, around a hundred people went to Geneva on the road to give your outrage over the fact, expression.

The following weekend, found also in Lausanne, Bern, Basel and Zurich, the Protest rallies of more than 600 people instead of calling for an end to violence against women. The women of the SP Switzerland requested as a response to the brutal attack measures, including a prevention campaign “no means no”. Also, women from other parties announced their intention to at cantonal and national level initiatives to counter violence against women submit.

No delivery to Switzerland

The alleged attacker had already been a few days after the Robbery as the French nationals from the border identified. Because the suspected perpetrators were French, they could not be delivered to Switzerland. Switzerland the procedure, therefore, took to the French criminal authorities.

more than a month after the violent attack took the French police in Haute-Savoie three suspicious men, and placed them in custody. You were questioned because of community violence and attempted murder. Two of the Suspects in the French police had been already known.

On Tuesday, five suspected attackers from the Haute-Savoie were before the court. You are between the ages of 22 and 25 years. The men face prison sentences of between seven and twenty years.

The judgment was expected for Wednesday evening.

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