What actually happened in Ayia Napa?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

A British woman is on trial in Cyprus, where she is accused of causing public mischief by allegedly falsely claiming to have been sexually assaulted at an Ayia Napa hotel in July. The woman has told the court she was raped, but then "forced" to retract her statement by the Cypriot police 10 days later. 12 young Israelis were arrested in connection with the allegations but were later released and returned home, where some of them celebrated with champagne at the airport. Tom Bateman and Anna Holligan have been following the story for the BBC. Presenter: Matthew Price Producer: Duncan Barber Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Matthew Price. This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.9	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today what actually happened in IANAPA?
0:27.0	There's an easy way to start this story. An 18-year-old woman went to Iernapa in
0:36.2	Cyprus, to work to party, to have fun in the months before she started at university.
0:42.1	One night it all went wrong. She went to the police. She said
0:45.4	she had been gang raped and they arrested a group of 12 Israeli teenagers that
0:51.5	she was accusing. The other version of this story is that she
0:56.1	completely made it up, which is why this week it is the woman herself who is in
1:01.3	court in Cyprus, while the men are back home, free.
1:05.0	We're going to start with Anna Holligan, the BBC's reporter in Cyprus who has spoken to this
1:10.4	woman. It begins like, well, a typical Iron Appa story.
1:16.0	Young girl, finished school, came to Iron Appa for the summer, she was planning to get a a job handing out flyers like so many British
1:25.2	teenagers do I did that in between uni those who aren't going on a gap here do this she
1:31.0	told the court it was meant to be like guessing some life experience here in
1:35.8	I and Appa. But today this is her experience.
1:43.0	As she's been arriving at court every day, we've seen the paparazzi photographers all over her cameras snapping in her face.
1:51.0	As her mom tries to kind of guide her up the steps into this very small
1:56.4	claustrophobic court building. A Famagusta district court is where we are now
2:01.6	and that's part of this case really,
2:04.5	that her treatment at the hands of the police
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