• Since June, the city of Strasbourg has taken part in the European SHINE project.

    Funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship program of the European Union, it is dedicated to preventing sexist and sexual harassment in nightlife venues.

  • Communication campaigns aimed at the general public and night professionals.

Testimonies of rape and sexual assault under chemical submission, in the world of the night, have spread on social networks in recent months.

To deal with this scourge, the city of Strasbourg has decided to participate in the European SHINE project.

Funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) program of the European Union, it is dedicated to preventing gender-based and sexual harassment in nightlife venues.

The objective is to make the night safer but also to develop a common prevention system with other major European cities: Marseille, Louvain, Prato, or even Budapest.

Different players in the Strasbourg nightlife met in early December: national and municipal police, justice, associations helping victims or preventing risky behavior, night professionals, CTS, etc.

In short, many people who are "not necessarily used to thinking and working together, do not necessarily have the same language", notes the deputy mayor Nadia Zourgui, in charge of public tranquility, municipal police, crime prevention and mediation.



In Strasbourg, prevention measures against sexist and sexual harassment already exist.

“The support cell for victims at the Hautepierre hospital, the security of people in the public transport of the CTS, lists the elected official.

But we realized that we weren't communicating enough, because even the members of associations didn't necessarily know them all.

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Spaces in establishments to accommodate and secure victims

After analyzing the methods of prevention selected or imagined by the participants, other work and reflection meetings will take place soon.

First a “massive communication campaign” on chemical submission aimed at the victims and their relatives and entitled “Watch over your friends”.

“Because most of the time, the victims of chemical submission are “placed on the sidewalk”, without calling relatives or family, regrets Nadia Zourgui.

The idea is to say: you party together, so how do you get back together?

And how you look out for each other.

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The “Protect your customers” prevention campaign will be aimed at restaurants, bars and night establishments.

The brochure will include “all the necessary telephone numbers, to know what to do, the good reflexes to have, in case a victim is found in or near an establishment”, details Nadia Zourgui.

Finally, another recommendation of the SHINE program consists of raising awareness and training the staff of night establishments and the implementation of a Safe label.

But also ensure that they have a space where a victim can be accommodated and secured.

It could be, in Strasbourg, effective from the end of January.

In the meantime, brochures for professionals are already circulating and the prevention poster campaign should not be long in coming.

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