I thought they wont hit a woman
October 26, 2017 11:31
'A couple from Lausanne in Switzerland was chased and attacked with stones and sticks by a group of youths in Fatehpur Sikri on Sunday, leaving them battered and bruised,' reports Anuja Jaiswal in the Times of India.
The 24-year-old Quentin Jeremy Clerc and girlfriend Marie Droz were strolling around the Fatehpur Sikri railway station when they were accosted by a bunch of hooligans.
'They initially passed comments, which we didn't understand, and then forced us to stop so they could take selfies with Marie,' Clerc tells Jaiswal. But when he didn't yield they thrashed the young couple, breaking Marie's arm and causing multiple bruises and leading to hearing impairment for Clerc.
'The boys wouldn't stop walking along despite our protests. All the while they kept taking pictures and trying to get close to Marie. From whatever little we could understand, they were asking our names and the place where we had put up in Agra. They were harassing us. They asked us to accompany them to some place, which we refused. A little after stones and sticks began to rain on me. When Marie intervened, she, too, wasn't spared,' Clerc tells the Times of India.
Jaiswal quotes Droz as saying she first thought the boys "won't hit a woman", but she was wrong. "They hurled stones at both of us.I was hit on the back, shoulder and hand. I still cannot understand why they attacked us. They didn't take any of our valuables," she says.
You can read about the horrific incident, here.
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