The Ministry of the Interior unveiled the figures around sexist outrages on Thursday.
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The number of sexist contempt offenses was 2,300 in 2021 in France, compared to 1,405 in 2020, according to figures released on Thursday by the Ministry of the Interior. 91% of victims of sexist insults are women and 61% are under 30, of which 23% are minor victims. “The perpetrators are almost exclusively men, mostly adults“, specifies the ministry.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, three-quarters of the offenses noted (75%) are “sexist insults that violate dignity or create an intimidating, hostile or offensive situation imposed on a person“. In second place, sexist outrages on minors under fifteen represent 6% of outrages, while “contempt committed because of the sexual orientation of the victim“, committed mainly against men, represent 5% of outrages.
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The Centre-Val-de-Loire region is the region of France with the highest rate of sexist outrage offenses recorded, i.e. 7 sexist outrages per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Ile-de-France with 4 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants. Corsica and Normandy are the two mainland regions with the lowest rates, not exceeding 1.5 sexist outrage offenses recorded per 100,000 inhabitants.
The overall share of sexist outrages committed on public transport reaches 18% in 2021.
Since the promulgation of the law of August 3, 2018 creating specific offenses for sexist insult, the number of offenses recorded by the security forces has only increased each year. They were 261 in 2018, 929 in 2019 and 1,405 in 2020.