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‘Rapist’ Romeo’s grate sex

A creepy, ascot-wearing vagrant spent his second day on the witness stand yesterday trying to convince jurors that his bruise-inducing Riverside Park encounter with a terrified Russian tourist was no rape — but instead a night of romantic abandon.

“There was the kissing, the hugging, we were passionately kissing,” Hugues Akassy, 43, told a Manhattan Supreme Court jury in his French accent of his time with the blond “Tatiana.”

He said they moved to a secluded area after attracting attention and enjoyed wild, stark naked sex against a wall and on top of a subway grate — making no mention of the prosecution photos showing Tatiana’s multiple bruises, which included stripe-like abrasions from the grating.

“It was kind of shaking,” he told jurors, smiling coyly. “I was kind of enjoying that.”

The Ivory Coast native has been on trial for a week, accused of raping the Russian tourist and other attacks.