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A Ouigo high-speed train, France's budget bullet-train service, Nice to Paris. Saturday, June 27, 9 PM. A 15-year-old girl feels sick mid-ride and sits down next to a stranger—a 16-year-old boy.

He pulls a knife. Drags her to the train bathroom. Rapes her.

"She explained having been taken under the threat of a knife, after feeling unwell and sitting next to the suspect"—Paris prosecutor's office.

Locked in the bathroom with her attacker, she manages to alert the train crew. The train pulls into Paris's Gare de Lyon station. Rail security officers grab the suspect as he steps off. Ten minutes later, he's handed to police.

The girl gives her statement to detectives at the station, then goes home with her parents.

The suspect is held in police custody—extended through Sunday night. Tuesday, June 30, prosecutors open a formal criminal investigation.

"The suspect was indicted for rape under threat of a weapon and violence committed in a means of transport. He was placed in pre-trial detention" — Paris prosecutor's office.

Under French law, committing violence inside public transportation is a legal aggravating factor, meaning it carries a harsher sentence than the same crime elsewhere.

Article in French : https://www.lefigaro.fr/faits-divers/un-adolescent-de-16-ans-mis-en-examen-et-place-en-detention-provisoire-pour-le-viol-d-une-mineure-dans-un-train-nice-paris-20260703

Leslie Morgans was out eating with her children when she received a notification from her security camera at her home in Sacramento, California.

Morgan saw 3 women throw something into the window of her soon-to-be newborn's nursery and called her husband, Anthony Cadena, to investigate.

Cadena, who was home playing video games, saw firecrackers that had lit the nursery bed on fire and ran to get a garden hose to contain the flames as he waited for first responders.

Police say a prior disagreement with the women led to the attack on the home.

Morgan said, “Our family forgives these girls because that's what we do. We're not holding a grudge against them… I do hope that something happens to change their perspective. We just hope they learn their lesson from this.”