paris

Until the Muslim riots in the Paris suburbs in 2005, few people outside of France had been aware of the large Muslim population living in almost exclusively Muslim townships just outside of Paris. These banlieues had become mini-North African villages, that had high unemployment and, quite often, almost no contact with the larger French culture.
In 2012, the banlieues were in the French news again when 14 Muslim men were accused of repeatedly gang raping 2 teenage girls over a 2-year-period (from 1999 through 2001) in one of these suburbs. In her complaint, the women, known only as Nina, alleged that it had started when she was 16 and was grabbed off the streets, and subjected to scores of rapes by local boys. Nina alleged that there were always as many as 25 boys present and, despite her screaming, crying, and vomiting, they would stand in lines of as many as 50 boys to take their turn with her.