A total of 90 women now accuse the late owner of the London department store Harrods, Mohamed Al-Fayed, of sexual assault and rape, compared to 60 previously, the London police announced this Wednesday, November 27, which is investigating several alleged accomplices.
It indicates that several of these new complainants reported “multiple violations,” without specifying which ones. He did not give details about the profile of the victims.
More than 50,000 pages of evidence
Questioned by the complainants about the management of their investigations, the London police also claim to be investigating “a certain number of people close” to the Egyptian businessman. According to British media, at least five people are in the crosshairs of investigators.
Police say they are “pursuing all reasonable lines of inquiry” and say they have already reviewed more than 50,000 pages of evidence, including numerous previous statements. Unapologetically, he nonetheless acknowledges “missed opportunities.”
At the beginning of November, it announced that it had transmitted to the “police police” the complaints of two women relating to cases from 2008 and 2013. At about the same time, it also claimed to examine the way in which “21 testimonies” presented before the death of Mohamed Al-Fayed will be processed”.
The testimonies against Mohamed Al-Fayed have multiplied since the broadcast in September of a BBC documentary that denounces multiple accusations of rape and sexual assault allegedly committed by the Egyptian businessman, who died in August 2023 at the age of 94.
In mid-November, three women who worked at Harrods accused the person’s brother, Salah Fayed, also deceased, of sexually assaulting them.
The events allegedly took place in London, the south of France and Monaco between 1989 and 1997. They also claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Mohamed Al-Fayed.
Furthermore, the group “Justice for Harrods Survivors” claimed to have been contacted by more than 420 people, victims but also witnesses, about similar incidents. These are mainly the department stores, but also the Fulham football club and the Ritz hotel in Paris, which also belonged to Mohamed Al-Fayed.
Source: BFM TV
