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Afghan, Iranian arrested for Canada student rape


French police have arrested an Afghan suspected people-smuggler and an Iranian migrant suspected of raping a Canadian journalism student in the northern port of Calais, officials said Tuesday.

Both men were arrested on Sunday in the Calais region and police were checking their fingerprints and DNA DNA: see nucleic acid.
DNA
 or deoxyribonucleic acid

One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes.
 against those of the woman's attacker, said an official close to the investigation.

The rape victim, a student at a London journalism school A journalism school is a school or department, usually part of an established university, where journalists are trained. An increasingly used short form for a journalism department, school or college is 'j-school'.  in her early 30s, has also helped police draw identikit pictures Noun 1. Identikit picture - a likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police; uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought
Identikit
 of the suspect.

Around 100 migrants have been questioned by police since last Tuesday's attack, which took place as the woman photographed migrants at a makeshift camp nicknamed "The Jungle", in a wood near the ferry port of Calais.

Claiming he wanted to show her something, the attacker led her away from the group and into one of the shelters where he raped and beat her. The attack only ended when another migrant approached the shack.

Prosecutors were expected to open a rape investigation on Tuesday, according to according to
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2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

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 the deputy prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Philippe Muller Mul·ler , Hermann Joseph 1890-1967.

American geneticist. He won a 1946 Nobel Prize for the study of the hereditary effect of x-rays on genes.



Mül·ler , Johannes Peter 1801-1858.
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