Paris seems to follow the dramatic criminal evolution of London as rape reports increased by 20% in the French capital in just five months, L’express reports.
Woman are preyed upon and followed through the streets, sometimes being raped in or near their own homes. Men also offer to accompany, on foot or by car, a girl out partying who’s friends have gone, thinking she is about to get a taxi.
Christophe Pinot, the head of the 2nd judicial police district of Paris (DPJ), worries about the new trend that drunken women are targeted.
“We have some cases of attackers who follow inebriated women at the end of the evening near the doorways of the bars, if is this a new trend, the coming months will tell,” he says.
In Pinot’s sector, half the city’s populations is concentrated around their many bars. The increasing number of rapes reported to police is seeing dangerous growth.
Paris police revealed the huge increase in rape reports have occurred within the last five months. Reports of adult rapes went up by 20 per cent across all twenty of Paris’s boroughs within the first five months of 2018.
With less than two per cent of rape cases resulting in the conviction of the perpetrator by a court of assizes, many reports end up in the bin.
“This is the case for 70 per cent of them”, says Dr. Muriel Salmono, psychiatrist and president of the Association for Traumatic Memory and Victimology. And “15 per cent of the cases end up in a correctional court, because the rape is downgraded to sexual assault, even simply in cases of violence”.
