The number of sexual violence complaints in Paris has increased by 30% compared to 2021, Paris prosecutor Laure Becuot announced on France Info on Thursday, September 15.
The summer in the capital was marked by several noisy rapes or sexual assaults, and eg. Parisian it was recently reported that since the beginning of the year there have been around four rape complaints per day.
“It should be understood that the number of complaints about sexual violence is increasing, if I believe the latest elements reported by the judicial police.commented Lor Bequo. This is 30% more than last year.“. “It can have two sources: an objective increase in facts, but also an increase in relation to freedom of speech“In the words of the head of the Public Ministry of Paris.
Is this the result of the #MeToo movement? “yeshe answered. For him, “there is reactivity at the judicial level“. “The road to travel seems huge, but there are successes in victim protection“, he insisted. Within the available funds,electronic bracelets are here“Especially, Lor Bequo said, while associations feel they are not being deployed fast enough.
According to the magistrate, they can cause problems in dense agglomerations like Paris, because “victims and perpetrators are close“And so they can”with frequent outbreaks“, “sources of stress“. “That’s why we’ve launched serious threat phones“Currently, 48 are available to the Paris prosecutor’s office. “It is something we develop and for which talents growLor Bequo assured.
He also pointed to the existence of a system developed in Paris that makes it possible to check whether the phone “infected or controlledby a spouse, for example in the event of separation or abuse. According to him, soon it should be deployed on a large scale in the capital’s police stations or victim support associations.
Source: Le Figaro
