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2023-05-22 17:19:21 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: B9B8F1D9A25471F67B3CEA8A192EF8B43275AC313F3BBF408F923038935775E9
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This is a real 2016 story. A Danish teenage girl who was sexually assaulted near a migrant asylum centre was prosecuted after using pepper spray to fend off her rapist because it was an unlawful weapon. The penalty, however, is a fine. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3418751/amp/Danish-17-year-old-girl-used-pepper-spray-fight-rapist-near-migrant-asylum-centre-told-prosecuted-carrying-weapon.html
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