Shocking Paris assault on woman caught on camera

SHOCKING footage has emerged of the moment a man attacked a woman outside a packed Paris cafe in broad daylight after she complained about his wolf whistles.

French student Marie Laguerre, 22, was walking home in the early evening last Tuesday when an unidentified bearded caucasian male “made dirty noises, commented and whistled”.

Ms Laguerre shouted “Shut up!” back, later admitting, “I didn’t even think he had even heard me”, The Sun reported.

The man then grabbed an ashtray from a cafe table and threw it at an increasingly irritated Ms Laguerre, who shouted more insults.

She told Le Parisien: “I felt hatred. I refused to be demeaned, it was humiliating. I refused to look down, I looked him right in the eyes, I was not going to apologise.”

It was then that the man slapped her around the face, leaving her with swelling around the cheekbones.

She said: “I was in pain, but it happened in a few seconds so I did not realise it right away.”

One of the most disturbing aspects of the video, which has gone viral in France, is that people sitting in the cafe did very little except for standing up and looking shocked.

Despite this, Ms Laguerre said: “The attacker was dangerous. After the attack, I came back and the witnesses were very supportive, please don’t lynch them.”