Travel influencer recounts horrid gang-rape by 8 men in India — which husband was forced to watch
A battered Brazilian Spanish travel influencer has detailed being horrifically gang-raped in India while her husband was forced to watch — as police revealed Tuesday that eight men have been arrested over the sick attack.
The couple, who go by Vicente y Fernanda on their social media pages, allege they were set upon by the gang of men while camping in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand last Friday night.
The influencers, who had been documenting their cross-country motorcycle trip for more than 300,000 Instagram followers, told Spanish TV channel Antena 3 that the men raped Fernanda and repeatedly beat Vicente during the brutal ordeal.
“They raped me, they took turns while some watched and they stayed like that for about two hours,” Fernanda said in the interview.
At some point in the ordeal, the men also threatened to kill them, she said.
The couple also detailed the alleged savagery in a string of Instagram videos posted over the weekend, which showed a bruised and swollen Fernanda saying: “Something happened to us that we wouldn’t wish on anyone.”
“We were assaulted in the tent. We were beaten. They put a knife to our necks and she was raped by seven guys,” her husband continued.
“My mouth is destroyed, but my partner is worse than me. They hit me with the helmet several times, with a stone on the head. Thank goodness she was wearing the jacket and that stops the blows a little.”
Police confirmed they were flagged down by a couple, who are Spanish citizens, on a roadside in the state’s Dumka district at about 11 p.m. Friday.
Dumka police superintendent Pitamber Singh Kherwar told reporters the tourists, who appeared to have suffered a beating, were taken to a nearby hospital, where the woman told doctors she had been raped by a group of men.
“The couple were speaking in a mixture of English and Spanish so the patrolling team could not understand them initially,” the superintendent said, according to BBC News.
“But they appeared visibly injured, so they were taken for treatment.”
Cops didn’t disclose the identity of the victims or give further details on the attack.
In a statement on X on Tuesday, Dumka police said eight men had been arrested over the weekend.
“All eight criminals involved in the incident of rape of a foreign woman under Hansdiha police station area were arrested and strictest action is being taken against all the criminals,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, the Spanish Foreign Ministry revealed on Sunday it had sent staff to the area and had been in touch with authorities, while Brazilian authorities said they had sought to contact the victims.
With Post wires
