first reported by Local10. <\/a><\/p>\nAfter the passenger became \u201cvery concerned,\u201d he alerted a flight attendant, the complaint alleged. <\/p>\n
\u201cWitness 2 observed Mattler moving his hand in a \u2018submarine\u2019 motion, as if trying to get his hand under the Victim\u2019s clothing and\/or between her legs,\u201c an FBI Special Agent wrote in the complaint. <\/p>\n
As the flight attendant rushed to assess the situation, they allegedly witnessed Mattler with his hand on the stranger\u2019s \u201ccrotch, over her jeans, making a scooping or rubbing motion on her vagina.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Mattler was returned to his seat to fetch his belongings, he allegedly tried to hand the victim a note that said, \u201cYou look beautiful when you are sleeping.\u201d REUTERS<\/p>\n
After the abuse occurred, Mattler was unable to tell the flight attendant whether he knew the woman and was moved to coach, federal officials alleged.<\/p>\n
When the flight attendant woke the woman to tell her what had happened, she was \u201cshocked\u201d and \u201cbegan shaking and crying,\u201d court documents stated.<\/p>\n
After Mattler was returned to his seat to fetch his belongings, the creep allegedly tried to hand the victim a note that said \u201cyou look beautiful when you are sleeping,\u201d the complaint added.<\/p>\n
He then allegedly claimed to investigators that \u201cnothing happened on the flight.\u201d But, when confronted with video evidence, the creep admitted that he \u201ctouched the woman sitting next to him and that he did not think it was such a big deal,\u201d court documents said.<\/p>\n
After claiming to have touched only her lower back and upper buttocks, the frisky Frenchman disturbingly said, \u201che touched whatever he could reach from across the armrest,\u201d investigators claimed. <\/p>\n
\u201cMattler advised his initial intention was to get the woman\u2019s phone number and give her his,\u201d an FBI agent wrote. \u201cHe then provided the note from his pocket that was written on his business card that read \u2018you look cute when you sleep,\u2019 along with the flight information and his seat number.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mattler, a French national, faces a count of abusive sexual contact for the disturbing incident. REUTERS<\/p>\n
He also allegedly informed agents that he had taken photographs with his phone but deleted them before officers could find them. <\/p>\n
Mattler appeared in Miami federal court on Wednesday and will return to court on Monday, Local10 reported. <\/p>\n
Prosecutors wish to keep him behind bars for being a flight risk and a danger to the community, the outlet reported. <\/p>\n
Court documents stated he also initially declined assistance from the French consulate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A French man allegedly sexually abused a sleeping woman he sat next to in the first-class cabin of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21090,123,125,124,12497,27862,94034,10645],"class_list":["post-257295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-airplanes","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-sexual-assaults","tag-switzerland","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}