Paris (AFP)
The executive announced Wednesday its "absolute condemnation" of facts "declared very serious", after the complaint filed by a student from Strasbourg claiming to have been hit and insulted by three men because she was wearing a skirt, said the door - speech of the government Gabriel Attal.
"The declared facts are very serious. In France we must be able to go out dressed in the street as we want (...) We cannot accept that today in France, a woman feels in danger, is harassed, threatened. or struck because of its behavior ", he added, after the Council of Ministers.
"It is necessary that the light be shed on this subject, that the culprits are firmly sanctioned", claimed Gabriel Attal.
"The fight is not over, we were right to put in place the verbalization against street harassment".
"Everyone is united around the absolute condemnation of these facts and we will always be on the side of women to put an end to these acts which have no place in the Republic", he concluded on the subject.
The young woman, a 22-year-old Strasbourg student named Elisabeth, had detailed her assault on France Bleu Alsace.
She was walking home when she met three young men: one of them "told me + look at this bitch in a skirt +", she explains in a video broadcast Tuesday on the radio site and in which we can clearly distinguish his swollen right eye.
Elizabeth gives a "forgiveness?"
but immediately hears answer: "you shut up bitch and you lower the eyes".
Two of his attackers then each grab an arm while the third punches him in the face, before the trio flees, according to the young woman.
According to her, about fifteen witnesses attended the scene but none helped her or called for help.
Elisabeth posted photos of her face on social media after the assault, prompting many indignant reactions.
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