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Horror: Tourist Reportedly Gang Raped on Cycling Trip to India

Mar. 16, 2013 8:00pm Erica Ritz

Swiss Tourist Reportedly Robbed, Gang Raped in India on Cycling Trip With Husband

Indian children participate in a protest against child abuse and rising crimes against women, in Bhubaneswar, India, Saturday, March 16, 2013. (Photo: AP)

(TheBlaze/AP) — A Swiss woman who was on a cycling trip in central India with her husband has been gang-raped by between four and eight men, police said Saturday. The attack comes three months after the fatal gang-rape of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus outraged Indians.

Authorities detained and questioned 13 men in connection with the latest assault, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest in Madhya Pradesh state after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha, local police officer R.K. Gurjar said.

The men beat the couple and gang-raped the woman, he said. They also stole the couple’s mobile phone, a laptop computer and 10,000 rupees ($185).

39-year-old woman was treated at a hospital in the nearby city of Gwalior.

A gut-wrenching photo showed the woman walking while being escorted by police to the hospital. Her face was concealed with a hood, a common practice in India, where law does not allow rape victims to be identified publicly to protect them from the stigma attached to rape in the conservative country.

A Swiss woman, center, who, according to police, was gang-raped by a group of eight men while touring by bicycle with her husband, is escorted by policewomen for a medical examination at a hospital in Gwalior, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Saturday, March 16, 2013. (Photo: AP)

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, one woman is raped every 20 minutes in India. But according to Reuters, police estimate that only four out of 10 rapes are reported since women are afraid of being shamed by their families or communities.

Indian television stations showed scores of police searching the forest where the attack occurred.

Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Tilman Renz described the case as “deeply disturbing” and Swiss diplomats have called on Indian authorities “to do everything to quickly find the perpetrators so that they can be held accountable.”

Last month, the Swiss government issued a travel notice for India that included a warning about “increasing numbers of rapes and other sexual offenses” in the South Asian nation.

India has seen outrage and widespread protests against attacks on women since December’s fatal gang-rape of a young woman on a moving bus in New Delhi, the capital. The crime horrified Indians and set off nationwide protests about India’s treatment of women and spurred the government to hurry through a new package of laws to protect them.

One of six suspects in the December attack was found dead in a New Delhi jail this past week. Authorities said he hanged himself, but his family and lawyer insisted foul play was involved. Four other men and a juvenile remain on trial for the attack.

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Associated Press writer Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report.

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SolitudeBliss
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 10:03am
As a WOMAN you will NEVER catch me anywhere near that part of the World. Nothing but Animals that see women as nothing but (**********) to be used. Ughhhh. Hope their Tourism dies !

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- The_Pointy_End
  Posted on March 17, 2013 at 10:38am
  This IS what happens to woman under Sheria law. Those trying to implement Sheria law, in countries that do not have it, will attack woman that are not Sheria compliant causing fear amongst woman. As a result, woman stop traveling alone, going out at night, drinking, etc to avoid being attacked. So they get their way (Sheria law) without it being on the gov’t books.
  
  Wake up America CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood are not our friends. Obama is allowing them to infiltrate here.
  
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- TheMarylandMyth
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:32pm
  The_Pointy_End, please check your facts. India is a 70% Hindu country and is not under Sharia law. I was in India for nearly two weeks earlier this year and it is true women are second class citizens but it has nothing to do with Islam I promise. I’m not sure why rape is so fashionable in India and doubt any one person knows conclusively but I suppose it stems from the conservative patriarchal society that places women below men. When that happens and the gender ratios become skewed due to families aborting or allowing female babies to die, it dehumanizes women. They become property. Add millions of sex starved young men to the mix and ta-da!
  
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Sargeking
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 9:53am
Wait just one hot goat soup minute! The Dem politician in Colorado has the answer. What the Swiss woman needed was a rape whistle and a map to the nearest call box. Why didn’t that occur to me earlier?

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nistron
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 9:24am
Should of just called tech support.

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Sargeking
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 9:01am
Where’s the real story about most Americans today who stay home because they have to prioritize their expenses, such as a roof over their head or food on the table? A vacation to far away India? Parents today get a DVD of Disney World, toss in a packet of microwave popcorn and tell the kids; enjoy!

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Sargeking
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 8:49am
I might just be spiff balling here but I’m somehow reminded of those hikers that cling to the borders of tourist friendly places such as Iran and North Korea. Especially when they are Americans that could hike in Alaska or Canada. Instead they have to go where they can get kidnapped and held for ransom. If I wanted to see India, I’d watch a DVD. Thanks anyway.

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- chucksue351
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:00am
  india stinks just like mexico, just say no
  
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- AMickey1126
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 10:56am
  Are you implying that she was asking to get raped?
  
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Sargeking
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 8:44am
In this horrific Obama Economy who has money to go to India or anywhere else on vacation? Oops! She is Swiss. My bad!

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brknhrt
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 7:57am
Don’t vacation in India. Go to Chicago instead – oh wait – never mind.

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Thundergod
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 6:32am
I dont know why anyone would want to go to India. Alexander The Great made it to India and deduced they worshipped evil gods and were not men,but beasts. Still much the same today.

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- Platonician
  Posted on March 17, 2013 at 6:57am
  Great point, the problem is that many naive westerners, especially liberals think that the world is a big Amusement Park full of good cute people ready to receive them, in their stupidity they look at the Western civilization as the sole evil in the world, when in fact this is a tough and brutal World. I’ve been to Africa and South America and I’ve seen places where people can kill you for 1 or 2 dollars, some places in the West are also hell holes, London or Paris are dirty and violent cesspools as well.
  
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- LDSmommy
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:28am
  PLATONICIAN- Amen!
  
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SpeakSoftlyAndCarry
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 4:22am
It’s a shame that India is having such an increase in violent crimes. Most of the people I have met from India have seemed to be really fine people. But that said, why would anyone want to go on a cycling trip in any third world country? Likely only a fuzzy-feely liberal couple would have such a false sense of security. It’s a dangerous world folks, best not forget it!

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- Thundergod
  Posted on March 17, 2013 at 6:39am
  If they wanted a taste of Indian culture they should have just come to America and stayed at our motels.
  
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- geeman
  Posted on March 17, 2013 at 2:39pm
  You asume they are libs,is it because their stupid for going to a place that hates white people,or because they were riding bicycles.Not saying your wrong or anything.
  
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- RedDawn2012
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:08am
  You’re so right! I biked across USA in ’76, and even then there were places of danger. People in passing cars threw garbage and filled pop bottles at us in central Oregon, threw firecrackers and forced us off the road in southern Illinois, and sic’d dogs on us and threw rocks at us in eastern Kentucky. Those were pretty tame compared to what can happen in a 2nd or 3rd world country. I tried to bike from Capetown to the Cape in ’90 and was warned not to “…because the baboons would get me.” But in 20 summers of biking in Switzerland and France, there was never any problem whatsoever.
  
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CommonSense41
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 12:56am
I am sorry for this poor woman and for her man but are there no cycling routes in Switzerland? Why a reasonable person should go in third world country? Looking for what – to learn how to worship a cow or rat

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Warphead
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 12:21am
Yeah, I want to bash India and all other countries where this type of barbaric crime happens on a daily basis. I’ll start with the United States.
Until the liberal mindset that either fails to punish or the punishment for such crimes is light it will continue unabated across the world. Yes, it concerns me deeply that this happens in other countries or anywhere for that matter. But what I find the most disturbing is that it happens here, everyday. Until such time that liberalism is abolished and once again the punishment fits the crime there will only be an increase in barbaric criminal acts as the social structure deteriorates further and the population increases. Murder rape, child molestation, producing and consuming child pornography, armed robbery. attempted armed robbery, and probably a lot more crimes that I haven’t even thought of yet, should all carry a mandatory death sentence. Until society and the governments they elect start enacting these strict but suitable punishments, society as a whole will continue to slide further into barbarism This continuing slide backwards will inevitably lead to complete societal breakdown as the citizens become more and more aware that their governments are inept and useless. Society will revert back to every man for himself because to survive there will be no choice.Personally I am sick of hearing these terrible crimes committed against the innocent when the solution is so damned simple.

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- Warphead
  Posted on March 17, 2013 at 1:14am
  While I’m in full Rant mode. It was stupid for them to go to India, knowing that a criminal element existed that could do such horrible things. What is it with people that ride bicycles for leisure anyway. They think nothing bad can happen to them? I mean they have to be the dumbest people on the planet or naive to the point of again being the dumbest people on the planet. I see the idiots everyday here all dressed up in their little black skin tight speedo’s and the little pointy helmets peddling along in the middle of the road doing all of 7 MPH on a highway with a speed limit of 50 MPH. Always there is a line of traffic backed up behind them. People blowing horns, cursing at them and some even nearly hitting them. When asked why they do this they all say the same thing. “Uhhh, Legally we have as much right to the road as anyone else.” Well, I have the right to go swimming with lead underpants on but it’s a really stupid idea. For everyone of them that gets killed each year they should have “Duhhh, Legally I have as much right to the road as anyone else” as their epitaph. There are bicycle riders that it’s obvious they ride a bike because of the gas prices. They have their work clothes on and usually a bag or lunchbox tied to the handlebars.Guess where on the road these riders ride? In the middle of the road daring anyone to hit them and backing up traffic? NO. They ride on the shoulder where anyone with an ounce of common sense would ride a bicycle.
  
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- Cycliste
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:50am
  Go suck an egg, Warphead!
  
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SilentReader
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 11:44pm
And I wonder who the vile perpetrators were this time?!

India used to be a fairly safe place to go in the past. I’ve been there three times. I would go there no longer! The criminals have taken it over, and it is no longer safe. Of course, even then, as a woman, you couldn’t wander around alone. Ever. Even if you had to take a 12-year boy along with you, it was advised.

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Southernsoul
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 11:19pm
India is definitely the better destination choice if your other choice is Chicago. There she would have been gang raped and shot.

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AZgirl9000
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 10:44pm
Against 8 rapists I guess a 7-round ballpoint pen magazine wouldn’t have done her much good.

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matt_c
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 10:31pm
Where are our liberal champions of women’s rights when it comes to these other countries where women are treated like utter garbage or worse? It seems they only care about the women in America where (cue foaming at the mouth rage) they have it pretty good.

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- Mil Mom
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 11:09pm
  @matt_c
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 10:31pm
  
  Where are our liberal champions of women’s rights when it comes to these other countries where women are treated like utter garbage or worse? It seems they only care about the women in America where (cue foaming at the mouth rage) they have it pretty good
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  They’re only champions of OTHER LIBERAL women’s rights. Those who believe in the same moral garbage they do. Then their public behavior is what these dredges of humanity use to claim they’re proof that women are sluts and deserve this kind of treatment.
  
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700P
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 10:14pm
I don’t know about them or Bob Costas but my Glock 17 and soon to be illegal in Colorado (and already illegal in NY, DC, CA and other godforsaken crime cesspools) would equal one doubletap per assailant plus at least one more in the tube for my tacload. People who question the need for so-called high capacity magazines have never been in combat nor do they have the right to say what us law abiding CITIZENS should be allowed to own. Colorado is going Red in 2014.

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MisterSarcastic
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 9:43pm
Doesn’t seem to be a smart idea to make India a travel destination right now, ladies.

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judyaz
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 9:33pm
Why is it on the increase? And are these motivated by certain groups or beliefs about women being free? Is it Anti-Westernism?

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- chelle44
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 11:14pm
  From the NYTimes 1/13/2013:
  “But women in New Delhi and throughout India say that their gender makes them vulnerable to attack from a vast and growing sea of unattached and unemployed young men who view women’s success as the reason for their failure.”
  This is not due to anti- West sentiment. It is due to 16 million more males ,then females in India in there late teens-early 20′s, without jobs. etc, running in groups committing all sorts of crimes, not just rape. It isn’t about country of origin. Only 4 out of 10 rapes are reported in India and last year there were 25,000 reported. So now unfortunately, this poor Swiss woman will join the sad ranks of tens of thousands this year in India.
  
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AngryK9
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 9:16pm
I’m sure if she had just peed herself they would have stopped.

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EQUALIZER
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 9:14pm
Well, you know womens motto these days, you must have traveled, you must be well traveled, you must travel, you must be worldly and travel, if you haven’t traveled than why aren’t you traveling, whats wrong with you?

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firearm
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 9:11pm
Too bad the tourist didn’t have a gun.

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- firearm
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 9:38pm
  …. and they might have needed more than 10 bullets.
  
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- RedDawn2012
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:15am
  Better a large can of Bear Spray (pepper) if they could have gotten one. It could easily have taken out all 13 of the perps.
  
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bikerdogred1
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 8:47pm
Well I guess they wanted to see India,I hope they are happy and they must have lots of stories to tell.

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skunkbear
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 8:35pm
And would a White woman passing through the American west in the 1800′s be treated any better?

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- vic138
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 8:48pm
  150 years ago? Wtf, they have nukes!
  
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- AmericanStrega
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 8:56pm
  Are you implying Native American Indians gang raped women back then? I have to disagree with you, if you are implying that. Native Americans would have killed the woman outright so she could not breed more whites to destroy them.
  
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- ManassasGrandma
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 9:30pm
  Yes, I think they would. You bothered a woman in those days, the locals got a rope.
  
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- HistoryProfMS
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 10:54pm
  No most white women were assimilated into Native tribes.
  
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- Southernsoul
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 11:15pm
  1.) Yes.
  
  2.) This isn’t the 1800′s.
  
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AmericanStrega
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 8:32pm
Why even vacation in countries like India? Have these people not seen the news reports? Stay home and vacation. For the love of Mike, isn’t your life more important than telling your friends and family you vacationed in another country (“And here’s our video of us riding through the indian countryside. And here’s the video of me being beaten and my wife being gang raped. Isn’t is quaint.”) STAY HOME! Contribute to you own economy.

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GoodStuff
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 8:12pm
India is the biggest hellhole on the planet.

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- pantokrator
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 8:21pm
  Well, I wouldn’t go THAT far, but it’s definitely up there.
  
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- AMERICA4EVER
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 8:23pm
  The very rich and the very poor only. Just like we are heading.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 8:26pm
  Well, that might be true but it is not without competition…
  
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- skunkbear
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 8:29pm
  You have obviously never been anywhere…
  
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- gyro
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 8:45pm
  india is america in 20 years under obama
  
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- FIREANDBRIMSTONE
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 9:18pm
  Predictable hate speech from a typical uneducated beckbot.
  
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- RaydocX
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 9:51pm
  North Korea, Somalia, Iran, for women Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Columba, Honduras, portions of Mexico, Venezia and Argentina, as well as segments of brazil.
  
  Oh, and Chicago, NYC, and apparently Colorado…
  
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- Sargeking
  Posted on March 17, 2013 at 10:20am
  GYRO: You’re far too optimistic. We don’t have another 20 years. Things look really bad just getting through the next four years. Nearly one more outrage after the other from the Obama Regime each passing day and I “optimistically” can’t look ahead that in 20 years we will be a Third World nation. Today we are more like a pear getting spoiled on the rim (our major hubs), eventually to reach the “pit”. Thanks Libs. We owe it all to you!
  
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- gyro
  Posted on March 17, 2013 at 2:08pm
  Sargeking — What i was trying to say I dont think obama is finshed after 8 years
  
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- RedDawn2012
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:20am
  Venezia? Oh, damn! I was so looking forward to that gondola ride under the Bridge of Sighs with my true love.
  
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