Canadian tourist says she was gang-raped at Paris police headquarters

A Canadian tourist who says she was gang-raped by French officers at police headquarters in Paris told a court on Wednesday that agreeing to visit their offices was the "worst mistake of my life".

Testifying at the trial of two of the officers in a courthouse next door to the scene of the alleged attack, Emily Spanton, 39, admitted she was drunk when she met the men in a bar near their offices.

Spanton said she went out just "to have some fun" on April 22, 2014 but wound up in 36 Quai des Orfevres, the fabled headquarters of the Paris criminal police on the Seine river, which features in the Maigret detective novels of writer Georges Simenon.

She claims she was raped by up to three policemen in a case that caused shock in France, where the "36" was revered as a centre of crime-fighting excellence.

Spanton met the officers, who were among a group of around 10 policemen, while drinking at a bar directly across the Seine river from their offices.

She admitted to flirting with the group but after drinking a while found she had "no idea what they were saying".

The accused -- named as 49-year-old Nicolas R. and 40-year-old Antoine Q., whose full names cannot be given under French law...