March 5, 2024
France probes rape accusation against Ritz hotel masseur
French investigators are looking into allegations that a masseur at Paris’s five-star Ritz hotel raped a woman client in January, prosecutors have said.
The Paris prosecutor’s office late Monday confirmed a report about the alleged incident.
According to BFMTV, a 26-year-old woman accused a masseur at the hotel’s spa of “massaging her breasts at length” then raping her “four times” before she was able to “push his hand away” and flee.
The hotel said the man “no longer works for Ritz Paris” and added it was working to provide “all available information” to the authorities.
“The security of our clients and co-workers is vital,” it said.
-AFP
