125,000: That’s the extraordinary number of women who have been FGM, infibulated or burned in France since the age of ten, according to government estimates. In the early 2000s, there were “only” 60,000. A statistic that has doubled in a decade would now be greatly exceeded. In any case, local actors are sure of it.
At the Hopital de la Conception in Marseille, Dr. Cohen-Solal, a gynecologist, takes care every week.five to ten newly female genital mutilators“. “It’s a wave that never stops for four or five years now“, he explains Figaro. The same story for Dr. Sylvie Abraham, a surgeon specializing in intimate reconstruction located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris;I see more and more crippled. Initially, these women do not always consult for this, and do not even know that they have been mutilated…»
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Source: Le Figaro
