It was at that point, when he was at rock bottom, that a well-known drug dealer in the favela summoned him.

Days after Dominique Pelicot's crimes came to light, his daughter Caroline Darian was summoned to the police station and shown photos of an apparently unconscious woman dressed in unfamiliar lingerie.

On Friday, the foreign ministry said it was summoning Hungary's ambassador to the country and would request the European Commission to launch proceedings against Budapest if it fails to fulfil its EU obligations.

Harris allegedly summoned the 15-year-old boy to his office under the “guise of discussing his grades,” the lawsuit states.

By the 1980s, when more modern methods of summoning help had supplanted its usefulness, the tower remained as a beacon for bored teenagers.