montreal

About 3 years ago, I was 20 at the time, I had just moved to montreal and had gone out with a few friends. I was at a bar not to far from my new apartment so I decided to walk home alone. I was wearing my hair up in a ponytail, jeans, a leather jacket, heels. Basically fully covered but still a little bit sexy. A 35 or 40 year old man approached me, asking me for directions. I kindly told him that I did not know where that street was. He then began following me, walking alongside me, asking if I wanted to go dance the salsa with him. He was being persuasive, and at one point started putting his hand around my hips and bum. I was terrified to do anything, scared that he would hurt me if I was too rude. I Would try to brush his hands away from me but he kept going. I asked him to please leave and let me go alone. He said things like “no, no, you shouldn’t walk home alone” “I’ll walk you home, don’t worry about it”. Me being, at the time, a naive suburban girl from a smaller city, I thought it would be a good idea to walk up a road that is in a very rich area in montreal, thinking it would be safe. Now I know to always take the main roads with lighting and people, even if it takes a little bit longer. The man was still following me up the dark, empty street. When I started standing up for myself and raised my voice at him to leave me alone, he said something like: “just a kiss, a kiss before I go”. He grabbed me and shoved his tongue dans my throat, I felt completely trapped in his strong grip. I succeeded in pushing him away, and saw a cab at the red light a few meters away. I ran to the cab and got in. There were 2 or 3 clients in the cab already, I apologized and told them a man was harassing me in the street. The driver and clients, all men, did not say anything about it, did not ask me if I was okay and did not seem angry or disturbed about it. They dropped me off a few blocks down and let me walk home in the dark.