The lawyers said they received these requests for information from alleged defendants and people who had evidence against the former owner of the store.Harrods“
At a news conference on Friday, the lawyers spoke of a “quarter century of sexual assault.”
At least 37 women “from around the world” have been accused. Egyptian Mohamed Al Fayed Who died last year at the age of 94 after sexually assaulting them, according to Agence France-Presse.
Al Fayed is the father of another lover.For Princess Diana, Dodi Al Fayed who died with her in a car accident in Paris On August 31, 1997.
The lawyers representing the claimants have received more than 150 new requests for information since the BBC aired an investigation on Thursday evening entitled “Al Fayed: Harrods predator”.
The Harrods website has published a form that any alleged victim can fill out.
The site wrote: “If you wish to claim compensation, Harrods store It adopts fixed procedures, with the assistance of specialized external lawyers.”
During the press conference, the lawyers spoke of a “system that was used to find women” and plan to sexually assault them, and compared this case to the cases of the two Americans. Jeffrey Epstein And Harvey Weinstein.
Many of the claimants were former employees of Harrods, and some of them were at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, which was also owned by Al Fayed.
On Saturday, a former club manager said, Fulham For football, measures have been taken to protect female players from Mohamed Al Fayed Who owned the club between 1997 and 2013.
“I read all the papers yesterday and, to be honest, I wasn’t too surprised,” Gaut Haugennes, former manager of Fulham Women’s between 2001 and 2003, told the BBC.
“We knew he liked young blonde girls. So we made sure that no such incident happened, and we provided protection for the players,” he added.
Fulham Football Club has expressed “disturbance and concern” after the allegations against its former owner.
“We have great sympathy for the women involved,” a club spokesman said, adding that Fulham were “investigating whether any players have been subjected to similar incidents”.
Mohamed Al Fayed was born on January 27, 1929 in a suburb of the city. Alexandria Egyptian coastal, and spent a large part of his life in Britainwhere he became the owner of Harrods in 1985 and Fulham Football Club between 1997 and 2013.
According to the BBC, Al-Fayed had previously been accused of committing similar acts, and the police opened an investigation in 2015 on charges of rape, but no charges were brought against the businessman.
