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19-year-old gang-raped on MSC Seaside

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Three French men who climbed this MSC Seaside According to several newspapers that reported on the crime, a 19-year-old Italian student who was on the cruise as part of a school trip was reportedly raped multiple times last week.

Last Friday, the men boarded the MSC cruise ship in Marseille, one of the six ports the MSC cruise ship visits, several days after the young woman began her cruise in Civitavecchia, near Rome.

She spent several days on the ship with her classmates before her three attackers boarded the ship. “Hours after boarding the ship, the three perpetrators are said to have lured the young passenger into her cabin before forcing themselves on her in the locked room.”

The rape reportedly occurred while the MSC ship was heading back to Italy (Genoa). Genoa Border Police conducted the investigation, interviewed the victim and obtained surveillance camera footage from the ship. The police arrested the three men.

This rape on an MSC ship allegedly occurred two months after a 27-year-old crew member MSC Fantasia was accused of raping a 33-year-old passenger from Great Britain

We recently reported on sexual assault statistics maintained by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) regarding crimes on cruise ships departing and returning to U.S. ports. Read: DOT First Quarter Cruise Crime Statistics: Carnival Cruise Line Ships Remain the Most Violent Ships at Sea.

In the first three months of this year, 32 sexual assaults/rapes on cruise ships calling at U.S. ports were reported to the DOT. There were a total of 131 sexual assaults on cruise ships from U.S. ports in 2023.

The U.S. Department of Transportation data does not take into account sexual assaults on cruise ships traveling in and around Europe, Africa, Asia or Australia.

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Photo credit: MSC Seaside (Departure from Miami) Yanjipy – CC BY-SA 4.0 commons / wikimedia.

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