A serial Pakistani rapist who targeted young men in Paris’s Bois de Boulogne has been arrested and jailed after being identified through DNA evidence. The 33-year-old suspect is believed to be responsible for multiple assaults over the past year.
The assailant, Shahzad K., a 33-year-old born in Pakistan and previously unknown to the police, committed his last known rape on the evening of Friday, May 23. On that day, a 23-year-old man was on his way to a jazz concert at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, located in the Bois de Boulogne, when he was targeted.
Around 7:00 p.m., as the victim walked from his bus stop towards the venue, a man suddenly attacked him, forcing him to perform oral sex under the threat of violence.
After the assault, the victim fled to the Louis Vuitton Foundation and immediately contacted the police. Although officers arrived, the attacker had already disappeared. Unbeknownst to the Pakistani migrant, this would be his final act before being taken into custody by the police.
The rapist used the same method in this case and others, which involved knocking his victims down and dragging them to a secluded spot. Then, a police source told Le Parisien, that the suspect would say he was carrying a knife as a form of a threat. After he finished raping his victim, he would steal their bank cards.
On Saturday, June 7, law enforcement, acting on a detailed description of their target, conducted a security operation led by the 16th arrondissement police station. During the operation, they successfully arrested Shahzad K.
While in custody, a DNA match also linked the suspect to a similar rape case from a year prior. The Paris prosecutor’s office has confirmed two victims, aged 21 and 23, with the incidents dating back to June 7, 2024, and May 23, 2025, respectively. However, a police source suggests there may be a third victim, attacked on March 18.
Currently, his known victims stand at three alleged cases, but Shahzad K. may have had other victims who did not come forward.
Shahzad K. was brought to stand trial in Paris on Monday. He has since been charged and placed in pre-trial detention.
The investigation, managed by the first judicial police district, is ongoing under the supervision of a Parisian investigating judge.
There have been many sexual crime cases involving Pakistani nationals in France. In one case from last year, an illegal Pakistani migrant was caught watching porn at his own trial in France, where he was convicted of charges of sexual assault.
During the trial, his lawyer also deployed a legal tactic used more and more frequently to reduce sentences, claiming that the homeless migrant acted due to his “patriarchal culture.”
Mr. M, whose full name has not been released, was brought before judges of the Créteil judicial court for sexually assaulting a woman in Choisy Park and assaulting her husband. He had no record before the incident, but due to his illegal status, he was considered a high flight risk.
The rape of young boys is a mass phenomenon in Pakistan and Afghanistan; it is so common that there is a word for it, Bacha bazi. It is most prevalent in northwestern Pakistan. Despite laws against homosexuality, these laws are rarely enforced and the practice of boy rape is seen as a “cultural tradition.” In some cases, massive scandals have arisen, such as the Kasur child rape scandal, which involved hundreds of children being raped. Videos of sodomy and forced sex acts were filmed with approximately 300 children, resulting in political upheaval. Organized crime rings, some with political connections, were filming the acts and selling the videos online.
Pakistan is ranked as one of the worst countries in the world for women’s rights, ranking 151st in terms of gender inequality according to the World Economic Forum.
In an article detailing the huge rape problem in Pakistan for the Toronto Star, Farzana Hassan writes:
“Whereas boys are assaulted and sexually abused through institutions such as bacha bazi — the practice of chiefs and landlords owning male sexual slaves — girls are victimized for a host of reasons, but most often the primitive urges of powerful and predatory men…
While the public in Pakistan is outraged at this murder, it should be noted that rape is often used as a weapon against girls and women to settle family feuds. It is inflicted with impunity. Punishments for rape and sexual assault are negligible and culprits often go scot-free.
Rapes are under-reported by women because the law often treats rape as adultery and women who report such crimes can end up in jail. The testimony requirements in a rape case can also make it impossible to punish the rapist.
These judicial anomalies indicate a fundamental lack of acknowledgement of the humanity of women. Yet the issue transcends mere law enforcement; it is bound up with sexist attitudes toward women and girls that are rampant in society. That such incidents occur daily and usually go unnoticed shows Pakistani society’s comprehensive failure of gender awareness.”
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