Woman lured to Eiffel Tower by Algerian migrants, gangraped and left for dead

Paris: French police have arrested three Algerian migrants for allegedly luring a woman to a spot near the Eiffel Tower in the French capital via Facebook and gangraping her.

According to a report in The Sun, the victim had been chatting with an unknown man on Facebook for quite sometime and had recently agreed to meet him. She said that she had been invited by the man to 'drink Coca-Cola and eat strawberries and grapes'.

The victim said that she had planned to meet the man in Champ de Mars, a park beneath the Eiffel Tower.

However, when she reached the place, she was dragged into the bushes by the accused and his two accomplices, bound, gagged and raped by them. She told the police that her ordeal came to an end when two joggers heard her screams and went to help her.

She was found by the joggers in a half-naked state. Following her testimony, police used the victim's computer to pull out relevant data from it, trace the accused and get hold of them. They eventually arrested three Algerian immigrants who had sneaked into France illegally.

The migrants had planned to carry out the attack in France and return back to Germany, said police adding that the accused did not have any official papers and claimed that they were seeking asylum in France.

" An inquiry is underway to try and work out exactly who they are, and what they were doing in France," said a source close to police.

Meanwhile, the accused denied rape charges against them and said that they were engaged in a consensual relationship with the victim.

A case has been registered against the accused and police are carrying out further investigation.