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In a disturbing incident aboard a Miami-bound flight, a French man is accused of sexually assaulting a woman while she was asleep in the first-class section. Court documents reveal that after the alleged assault, he left her a troubling note.
The accused, 48-year-old Guillaume Sebastien Roger Mattler, now faces charges of abusive sexual contact. This unsettling event reportedly took place on Swiss International Air Lines Flight LX64, as detailed in a federal criminal complaint seen by The Post.
According to the complaint, Mattler was seated next to a 29-year-old woman he did not know on the flight from Zurich to Miami. As the woman fell asleep, two other passengers witnessed his reprehensible actions.
These passengers allegedly observed Mattler touching the sleeping woman. Alarmed by what they saw, one of the witnesses recorded the incident on his cellphone, capturing several videos, and promptly informed his companion of the situation, as reported by Local10.
The two passengers allegedly spotted the French national touching the woman as she slept, with one alarmed man whipping out his cellphone to take several videos and alerting his friend, according to the document first reported by Local10.
After the passenger became “very concerned,” he alerted a flight attendant, the complaint alleged.
“Witness 2 observed Mattler moving his hand in a ‘submarine’ motion, as if trying to get his hand under the Victim’s clothing and/or between her legs,“ an FBI Special Agent wrote in the complaint.
As the flight attendant rushed to assess the situation, they allegedly witnessed Mattler with his hand on the stranger’s “crotch, over her jeans, making a scooping or rubbing motion on her vagina.”
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.
When the flight attendant woke the woman to tell her what had happened, she was “shocked” and “began shaking and crying,” court documents stated.
After Mattler was returned to his seat to fetch his belongings, the creep allegedly tried to hand the victim a note that said “you look beautiful when you are sleeping,” the complaint added.
He then allegedly claimed to investigators that “nothing happened on the flight.” But, when confronted with video evidence, the creep admitted that he “touched the woman sitting next to him and that he did not think it was such a big deal,” court documents said.
After claiming to have touched only her lower back and upper buttocks, the frisky Frenchman disturbingly said, “he touched whatever he could reach from across the armrest,” investigators claimed.
“Mattler advised his initial intention was to get the woman’s phone number and give her his,” an FBI agent wrote. “He then provided the note from his pocket that was written on his business card that read ‘you look cute when you sleep,’ along with the flight information and his seat number.”
He also allegedly informed agents that he had taken photographs with his phone but deleted them before officers could find them.
Mattler appeared in Miami federal court on Wednesday and will return to court on Monday, Local10 reported.
Prosecutors wish to keep him behind bars for being a flight risk and a danger to the community, the outlet reported.
Court documents stated he also initially declined assistance from the French consulate.