PARIS — Two elite French police officers have reportedly been convicted of gang-raping a Canadian tourist inside Paris police headquarters.
Local media reports say that the two anti-gang officers were handed seven years in prison and ordered to pay 20,000 euros in damages.
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The victim, Emily Spanton, who agreed to be publicly identified, is the daughter of a Toronto police officer.
She was 34 when the officers raped her after a late-night encounter at a nearby pub in April 2014.
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Spanton said she felt she would be safer going to the police station than to her hotel.
The officers, Nicolas Redouane and Antoine Quirin, had denied raping her.
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