Shocking video has emerged of a woman “with an American accent” being physically attacked by a man on the Paris subway on Tuesday (January 28).

The video, which has gone viral on social media, shows the French attacker verbally abusing the victim before hitting her face.

The filmer told Newsflare: “it was an attack and harassment to the woman. Before that, the attacker was already disturbing other women passengers on the Metro.

“He was trying to grab the face of women inside and trying to put his thumb on their faces, some women got off because of that.

“Then eventually he focused on that woman, talking violently and verbal abused her and then he violently punched the girl without any reason.

“Then it was chaos. One guy and myself tried to run after the attacker, we tried to stop him and I sprayed him in the face with pepper spray.”
According to the filmer, the woman spoke in English with an American accent.