With a certain freedom of speech, sexual, sexist, homophobic or all kinds of attacks on the public highway are increasingly reaching the ears of the authorities.

More attacks probably also since the end of confinement and a certain "recovered freedom" which sometimes turns to excess, explains the municipal police of Strasbourg.

The City has chosen to offer Strasbourg municipal police officers a one-day training course to prevent these risks of sexist or sexual violence in the streets.

Already 22 agents have followed her, on a voluntary basis.

In the next three months, around forty additional police officers will also be able to benefit from it and in the long term, the entire workforce, ie 157 police officers, will be trained.

This training is part of a

2022-2024 Women's Rights and Gender Equality

action plan , adopted on January 31 by the city of Strasbourg.

The implementation of the system was also motivated by the student population "the student population which had massive numbers, in the summer of 2020", underlines Christelle Wieder, deputy mayor in charge of women's rights.

A legal framework

Objective: to identify and prevent such violence and listen to the victims.

How? 'Or' What ?

By deflecting the legal framework of police interventions.

Recall “the different legal texts, the criminal side, the different offenses that exist, details the police officer and team leader Éric Fiegel.

With references that allow us to work from concrete cases, which allowed us to understand sexist outrage […] and listen to the victim without putting conditions on what she says.

“Police who also say they are” much more aware “when people come to see them.

A “dissuasive and reassuring” police presence

Concretely, the municipal police continue "to occupy the land, day and night", and tour the exits of clubs and bars, "because alcohol abuse is almost always the cause of these attacks, often verbal, sometimes physical, assures Éric Tillie, another team leader.

Our presence is a deterrent.

This is part of the prevention, and for the vast majority of night professionals and young people who party, our presence is appreciated.

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Céline Fetet, head of mountain bike police, concedes however that it is not always easy for a victim to come and complain after being whistled, insulted, having had his chest touched.

But she wants to be reassuring and reminds us that victims can confidently confide in them, "for prevention but also to know in what legal framework they find themselves in order to act correctly afterwards, give the right information or even identify the identity of the aggressor if the victim can designate him.

A municipal police who can also draw up a ticket and even lead the aggressor before a judicial police officer.

As a reminder, insists the police, the fine for sexist or sexual insult is an offense punishable since 2018 by a fine which can range from 90 to 750 euros.

It can even go up to 1,700 euros in the event of aggravating circumstances.

And be careful, underlines police officer Eric Tillie: “Alcohol abuse to explain bad behavior is not an excuse, it is even an aggravating circumstance.

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