Bridgerton actress talks about phone theft trauma

Bridgerton actress Genevieve Chenneour has talked about how she has been severely left and unable to leave the house after a phone stolen in West London.

The 27 -year -old man was attacked in a cafe in February when he faced a man who took his phone.

Talking to the BBC for the first time about the attack, who understood and shocked him, the actress said that it was motivated to live with her mother to go out of the capital. “I no longer call West London as a single woman as a single woman,” she said.

Last month, 18 -year -old Zakaria Bularas was sentenced to 22 months in jail for a general attack and in three cases of theft.

Chenour, who played Clara Livingston in season three of Brijarton, was taken from a table from his phone, meeting his ex -lover in Kesington High Street, who was meeting his ex -lover in and the juice.

The CCTV footage showed him that then caught the thief in a dialect to get his phone back, after which the change quickly increased, which he described as “a full-on battle between four people for about five minutes”.

“I was just facing forward behind a cafe, so there should have been nothing really behind me,” Chenouer told BBC News.

“I felt that it was a moment to rest. I put my phone next to me, and the next thing I knew … felt as if a darkness came over me.”

Chenoyur said he felt that his phone was wrong before disappearance. When he turned, he saw a man standing directly in front of him in a black hoodi.

Chenoure said that he had “asked for my phone very soon” but the bullets refused.

“Fortunately, I had my former. So I made the first step to grab her to get the phone and then I pushed her from her chest or neck to make some distance,” she said.

Chenor and his ex -boyfriend tried to stop the man from running away, but the situation intensified when another person entered the cafe.

“They threatened me to stab me. It increased that I didn’t know what to do because if you get away from them and you are fighting, is it a chance for them to stab you?”

She said that she was briefly black out during the collision.

“It turned black. I don’t know what hit me, but some hit me. Then it moved forward and I ended with my arm around my neck,” he said.

Someone shouted that the police had arrived and the doors were closed.

Chenor said that she then lets go, hoping that the officers will take charge. But the claim that they had arrived and the suspect ran away.

The 18 -year -old repeated criminals were sentenced in the Ielworth Crown Court on 1 July.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said that the authorities investigated a 19 -year -old man after the incident in & the juice, but no action was taken again.

Chenor said that he continued to intimidate him not knowing the identity of the other person.

He said, “I can’t understand that walking around someone who threatened me to stab,” he said.

“It should not be just a case. I think I deserve to know the name of that person.

“How can you threaten to stab someone and knowing that the man with whom you have done is in jail?”

He also said that he had no prior knowledge that CCTV footage would be released, and did not agree to its circulation.

“I woke up for this viral video of mine defending myself. I black out, so I didn’t know that I had done this. Watching that video was just the most bizarre experience. It was like a fever dream.”

The psychological impact of the attack, he told the BBC, has been serious and long lasting.

Chenoure said that she had seriously agreed, saying: “I didn’t want to leave home. And then if I left home, I wanted to be with someone.

“But I felt like a burden. It is actually a dark downward spiral that you can find inside yourself.”

She said she stayed in hotels when she returned to London for work.

“I have avoided public transport, changed my routine, and I am currently searching for medical options,” Chenouer said.

He praised the cafe employees, especially praising women who called and supported the police. He also expressed praise for the officers who responded on the day – but criticized the lack of long -term support from the Met Police.

Chenoure said that “no coordinated afferacare” was and “he was left to survive”.

“I have talked to those who have done the same thing exactly after something like this. It impresses every part of your life,” he said.

Asked what message she would give to the people she had experienced, as she said, she said: “You don’t know what people are doing when you rob them, threaten them, hurt them.

“You don’t have to hurt people, where you want in life. There is a better option.”

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said that the officials were continuously chasing criminal gangs with the intention of stealing the phone and the phone “.

He said: “We have increased patrolling in hotspot areas to identify and stop criminals.”