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Sevim \u0130lg\u00fcn, however, says she is \u201ctraumatized\u201d from being pinned to the ground by an Ullivik-hired security guard who kicked her out of the hotel on March 6. \u201cI did not sleep for two days because I was in a lot of pain, I was having nightmares of that security sitting on top of me laughing,\u201d she said in an interview. \u0130lg\u00fcn, an Inuk woman living in Montreal, entered the hotel with a friend around 1:30 a.m. that morning. 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Sevim \u0130lg\u00fcn, however, says she is \u201ctraumatized\u201d from being pinned to the ground by an Ullivik-hired security guard who kicked her out of the hotel on March 6. \u201cI did not sleep for two days because I was in a lot of pain, I was having nightmares of that security sitting on top of me laughing,\u201d she said in an interview. \u0130lg\u00fcn, an Inuk woman living in Montreal, entered the hotel with a friend around 1:30 a.m. that morning. 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