Revered French national icon falls from grace Celebrated anti-poverty and homelessness campaigner Abbé Pierre was voted France’s most popular person for many years, but sexual abuse accusations have shattered the activist priest’s crusading legacy
Anger over French teenage ‘meet up’ site which does not check age Internet users say app, which is banned from Apple store, allows paedophiles to contact children as identity is not verified
New ID card aims to stop predatory French priests. How will it work? French victims of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church say the new system does not go far enough
news ‘Polanski defenders are setting women’s rights back decades in France’ Columnist Nabila Ramdani gives her view after actress Emmanuelle Seigner said in an interview that her husband Roman Polanski should be “left in peace”
Paris police officer who insulted sexual assault victim suspended The officer accidentally left a voicemail on a woman’s phone, calling her a ‘slut’ and a ‘b*tch’
British man sought by UK police for sex offences found in south France David F. was apprehended on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in a shop. Checks showed he was already being sought for sex offences under an Interpol warrant issued in Manchester 18 months previously
France plans new laws to protect minors against sex offences The government is debating a raft of new laws following high-profile incest accusations which sparked national debate earlier this year
I was raped from age of 8 but law does not protect the young Dancer Andréa Bescond dances to ‘repair’ herself. “From the age of eight I was repeatedly raped by a family friend. I was broken and need to repair myself but I don’t need healing, because I wasn’t ill,” she said.
Another French city trials stop-on-demand night buses On-demand services are already being tested in a number of regions
DSK sexual assault accuser speaks out in French magazine A woman who accused former French politician and head of the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has said that he would be “in prison today” if he was poor, nine years after the scandal rocked France.
Macron defends appointment of minister accused of rape The French President says the accused minister has the right to be presumed innocent until proven otherwise. But women’s rights groups question: Would the same logic apply if he were accused of murder?
Paris mayor candidate’s sex video: is it a big deal? Following the resignation of Benjamin Griveaux, should the media respect politicians’ private and domestic privacy? Or do the public have a right to know every dodgy detail?
Should an age of consent be written into French law? France does not have a legal age of consent – a point which has been under debate again following a new book in which the author tells of the harm she suffered from a sexual relationship with a man of 50 when she was 14.
700 street harassment fines issued in France in a year Behaviour such as cat-calling, making offensive comments about a person's appearance, obscene gestures, unwanted propositioning, or deliberately and insistently following someone in the street can now result in fines of between €90 and €750 Eurovision singer sues over online gay hatred Associations await decision on France sex worker law Street sex pests facing €90 on-the-spot fines
Tour de France to keep its ‘podium girls’ It follows controversy and claims that sexual harassment is common Patient-medic sex ban Labrador Tag Feed Labrador Tag Feed Labrador Tag Feed Labrador Tag Feed