Bollywood actress, Mallika Sherawat has been tear gassed and beaten up by three masked intruders in her own Paris apartment block, police revealed today.
The horrific attack on the 40-year-old Indian model comes just a month after reality TV star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in a neighbouring flat.
It was last Friday night when Sherawat and French businessman lover Cyrille Auxenfans, 45, arrived at her residential building in the upmarket 16th arrondissement of Paris at around 9.30pm.
Le Parisien newspaper on Thursday describes how the criminals wore scarves across their faces and ‘without saying a word, sprayed their victims with tear gas before punching them.’
The attackers then ran away, leaving a shocked Sherawat and her friend to call the emergency services.
A criminal investigation has been launched, with detectives working on the theory that the assailants were attempting a robbery.
A police spokesman added, ‘A full investigation to find the assailants is underway.’
Sherawat, whose real name is Reema Lamba, frequently highlights atrocities in India, including honour killings and gang rapes.
‘India is a hypocritical society where women are really at the bottom compared to men,’ she told Variety magazine at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, on the French Riviera.
