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Two French policemen have been convicted of gang-raping a Canadian tourist inside the Paris police headquarters and sentenced to seven years in prison.

The case centred on an assault at 36 Quai des Orfevres, a famous address depicted in many crime movies and novels.

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The Canadian woman, Emily Spanton, said she met a group of officers in an Irish pub in April 2014 and they invited her for a night tour of police headquarters.

There, she claimed she was forced to drink whisky, perform oral sex and was raped several times.

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The Associated Press does not usually identify alleged victims of sexual violence unless they agree to be named or come forward voluntarily and identify themselves, as Spanton did.

Spanton first said that she had been raped by four officers before revising her testimony to three. Only two policemen have been brought to court.

The officers, both members of a police unit that specializes in serious criminal cases such as armed robbery, denied any wrongdoing and claim the alleged victim consented to sexual interactions during a booze-fuelled evening.

Judges initially threw out the case but the Paris prosecutor and Spanton won their appeal to have it brought before a jury.