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A homeless, convicted intercourse offender has been terrorizing ladies within the East Village – they usually’ve reached out to The Post for assist.
Fritz Marseille — who spent 5 months in jail final 12 months for allegedly groping two ladies — hangs out between East third Street and East fifth Street alongside Second Avenue, allegedly accosting ladies who ignore his advances, witnesses stated.
But he took his alleged misdeeds to a different degree when he lurked behind Kristen Booth final month and declared, “I’m going to f–king rape you,” the shaken digital artist informed The Post this week.
Booth, 49, who was with neighbor Christine Rucci, 60, informed Marseille, 38, to “get the f–ok away from me!” and the 2 ladies screamed “rapist!” to get the eye of others and thrust back Marseille through the June 17 incident on the nook of East fifth and Second Avenue.
“It’s very clear he does have some psychological well being and habit points. He is homeless. But I’m at crucial mass with that excusing the truth that he’s a legal. He’s adopted me earlier than,” Booth stated, noting she now carries pepper spray.
Booth lodged a criticism in opposition to Marseille with the NYPD, considered one of 5 she’s filed in opposition to him since Sept. 2020.
Rucci, who carries a security alarm, stated Marseille’s revolting antics embrace drug dealing, urinating, defecating, and masturbating in and round their East fifth Street buildings. She referred to as him a “predator” and a “ticking time bomb.”
Marseille is “insane,” stated a employee at close by Cooper’s Craft & Kitchen, who famous quite a few frightened ladies have ducked into the pub to flee the vagrant’s verbal abuse.
Lately, the homeless man has grow to be “extra aggressive,” stated an worker at Coffee Project on East fifth.
Local cops from the ninth Precinct “do nothing,” fumed Rucci, who claims to have been verbally abused by Marseille.
“We stay on a police block which must be the most secure block on this space and it’s not and that’s unhappy,” she stated.
Marseille has seven sealed instances, in response to the state Office of Court Administration. He’s been arrested twice, in response to the NYPD, for groping the rear ends of two totally different ladies and pleaded responsible in each instances.
Marseille was required to finish a counseling program with Queens Counseling for Change — who stated its clientele consists of people with “problematic sexual behaviors” and “anger administration points” — in response to the Manhattan District Attorney’s workplace.
Marseille failed to seem in courtroom on June 1 for compliance and there may be now a warrant out for his arrest, authorities stated.
“It’s solely a matter of time earlier than it goes past harassment and groping and when it escalates to rape, then the Mayor, NYPD, the DA’s workplace, and judges will take discover,” Rucci seethed, including, “I for one don’t wish to wait.”
