Arab finds couple in car; says it’s illegal, demands to grope woman

Arab molests European taking advantage of her ignorance of UAE laws

DUBAI 5 June 2017: An Egyptian, MM, allegedly blackmailed a teacher and her colleague and groped the woman after he claimed that it is illegal in the UAE for a woman to be with a man in a car, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

MM, 27, claimed to police that the two had run away leaving behind their car open, so police came and seized the car.

On March 8 at around 8.30pm EH, 30, French teacher, and her colleague the sports teacher L left the school.

“We headed to my car at the parking lot near a club. I drop my colleague home because he does not have a car. After we sat in the car and I switched on the engine, a man came towards us with his mobile’s light on. He was video recording the car – and then he came towards me and recorded me… I turned my head to the other side and asked him why he is doing that… he replied that it is not allowed for a man and a woman to be in a car. I understand a little Arabic same as my colleague,” she said.

The man who was wearing the club’s uniform asked my friend that I should move to the back seat and that he wanted to sit with me for five minutes. He bent into the car and switched off the car and pulled the key and took it with him and he was yelling and screaming at us.

Molested Me

“I refused to sit back with him. He insisted that I should allow him or he will inform the police about me and my colleague in the car. We got scared of him and he groped my breast and then asked for five minutes as he wanted sex… but he got a phone call and left us with the key with him,” said the victim.

The victim and her colleague took a taxi and went back home. The decided to complain to the club’s administration.

The next day morning, the victim came to the school and as she did not find her car, she called the police.

Police learnt that the club’s staff had told the administration about the two teachers who left the car and run away as they saw him.

Police arrested MM, who admitted to molesting the teacher after claiming it was accidental.

He then admitted that he blackmailed the teacher and threatened of informing the police being with her colleague in the car if she does not allow him to have sex with him.

The court will reconvene on July 4.

By Lolyana Zaki