It is these failures of criminal response that prompt the French to take justice into their own hands

Did the figures signal a sudden French tendency to take the law into their own hands? One thing is certain. criminal prosecution is increasingly becoming an aspect of the great “greenwashing” of crime. The “flow” of real complaints filed in police stations, the dry and brutal classification between survivors and cases whose authors will go to court, is dizzying. It feeds the widespread sense of impunity in public opinion. Self-promoting by a steamroller of incessant news channels that recycle ad nauseam the smallest incident.

Statistics have become opaque. The National Crime Observatory (OND), created under Nicolas Sarkozy, has been disbanded in favor of the Statistical Service of the Minister of Internal Security (SSMSI), which is still seeking its own assessments. Admittedly, so-called “victimization” surveys, conducted through large-scale victim surveys, should shed light on the “grey area” of crime…