Caroline Baudry 07:24, March 08, 2022
Today is International Women's Day.
That of moving freely in the public space is one of them.
And yet, according to an Ipsos study carried out last year, 75% of women avoid certain places, 59% adapt their clothes and their appearance.
Report in the capital, where women must always fight for the right to move freely without being harassed.
REPORT
Sexual comments or solicitations, mouth noises, insistent pursuits or exhibitionism... According to a 2020 Ipsos study, 81% of women in France have already been victims of sexual harassment in public places, also called "street harassment".
1 p.m., in a busy street in the north of Paris.
Chubby face, track jacket, jeans and white sneakers.
Sarah and Emma, 14, leave college for lunch break.
They tell of being stopped, every day, by strangers in the street.
"Men come to accost us, come to whistle at us, and if we don't answer, they often insult us", confides Emma at the microphone of Europe 1.
"They see us as pieces of meat"
"This morning, I had insistent looks, then he called me a whore and he left," adds Sarah.
How do these teenage girls feel in this kind of situation?
"Disgust, and sometimes fear," they answer.
"I say to myself: how is it possible that they see us as objects like animals? I don't find that normal", underlines Emma.
"They only see us as pieces of meat and not human beings," adds her friend Sarah.
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"Attitudes haven't changed that much since Me Too"
Emma sometimes changes her itinerary so as not to meet these men, often in their twenties, sometimes 60 years old, she says.
This violence begins at the very beginning of adolescence.
20 years later, Marion, a passer-by, is resigned.
"She's good that one, if you were my girl I would do this to you, I would do that to you... I think it's something that men are not aware of, that we go through this on a daily basis Despite all the MeToo movement, we have the impression that on a daily basis, it hasn't changed mentalities so much".
Powerless, Marion chooses to ignore these behaviors.
To eradicate them, she relies on the education of young boys.
The law of August 3, 2018 created the criminalization of "sexist outrage" in France to verbalize street harassment.
He is punished with a fine of 90 to 750 euros.
In four years, the internal security forces have recorded nearly 5,000 offenses for sexist outrage.
Nearly 20% of reported victims are minors.
It is estimated that only 2% of victims of sexist insults lodge a complaint.