The Alexandre Robert case concerns an incident of gang rape of a minor that occurred in 2007 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
[1] Alexandre's friend was then forcibly removed from the car, beaten, and forced to go behind a sand dune where he could not see what was happening when the three Emeratis threatened Robert with a pool stick and a hunting knife and proceeded to gang-rape him.
Véronique Robert then contacted the French government directly via the Quai d'Orsay and the Secretary General of the Élysée Palace, Claude Guéant.
[5] During a meeting at the Élysée Palace in July 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy even asked his Emirati counterpart to give "the greatest attention" to the case.
[4] The Dubai authorities initially announced to Alexander's family that blood tests carried out on the three rapists had provided negative results and that they were therefore not carriers of HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases.
It was later learned that the 32-year-old assailant had been carrying HIV for several years and that he was well known to the Emirati authorities, who had even recommended that the man be locked up in a separate room when he was incarcerated.
The Emirati authorities are said to have sought to hide this HIV case, as the subject, like that of homosexuality, is very taboo in the country, which seeks to deny the existence of "the virus" on its territory.
[7] Faced with this obvious concealment of information, Véronique Robert accused the Dubai authorities of having lied and endangered her son's life because during this time they had not been able to start using post-exposure preventive therapy.