French men arrested for schoolgirls' assault

Last updated 14:59 03/09/2010

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Two Frenchmen have been charged with indecently assaulting five Victorian school girls on an excursion to Sydney.

The attacks took place in the bedroom of a backpackers' hostel in the city's Kent Street on Wednesday night, police allege.

The students, from a secondary college northeast of Melbourne, were staying at the hostel when two men forced their way into their room at about 11.30pm (AEST) and indecently assaulted them.

A teacher ejected the men from the room.

Police arrested two men, both aged 22, on Thursday and released them without charge.

But after further inquiries two French nationals, aged 21 and 22, were arrested at a hostel in Pitt Street later on Thursday.

The men have been charged with a combined total of six counts of aggravated indecent assault (offender in company) and given conditional bail to appear at Downing Centre Local Court on September 23.

They have been ordered to surrender their passports.

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- AAP