{"id":390026,"date":"2026-01-04T00:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:56:11","slug":"man-helped-woman-on-dance-floor-then-sexually-assaulted-her-in-melbourne-laneway-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390026\/","title":{"rendered":"Man helped woman on dance floor then sexually assaulted her in Melbourne laneway, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are seeking public assistance to locate a 22-year-old French man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in a Melbourne laneway in the early hours of New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n

Officers have been told the victim was with friends at a nightclub when a man helped her from the dance floor after she fell.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Detectives believe the same man sexually assaulted the woman at about 4:30am in Coors Lane, which runs between Little Bourke and Lonsdale streets, before leading her to Little Bourke Street and leaving the area.<\/p>\n

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Detectives are seeking information on Adam Berguiga’s whereabouts. (Supplied: Victoria Police)<\/p>\n

A French national, named by police as Adam Berguiga, is wanted on warrant in relation to the alleged sexual assault.<\/p>\n

It is believed he may be driving a blue 2007 Toyota Yaris with the registration UYO268, and he is known to have spent time in the Melbourne CBD, St Kilda and wider Port Phillip area.<\/p>\n

Investigators have released an image of Mr Berguiga in the hope someone may be able to provide information on his whereabouts.<\/p>\n

He has short dark hair and a side part, and was last seen wearing blue jeans, a black hoodie jacket and black and white sneakers.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or make a confidential report at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are seeking public assistance to locate a 22-year-old French man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[208891,9278,208892,66792,43,647,115879,44,63082,6671,41,39,42,40,2024],"class_list":["post-390026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-adam-berguiga","tag-city","tag-coors-lane","tag-crime-stoppers","tag-headlines","tag-melbourne","tag-new-years-day","tag-news","tag-nightclub","tag-sexual-assault","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}