Are French women having to take police investigations into their own hands? That was at least the case for one Frenchwoman in her twenties who suffered a sexual assault on April 7, 2026,
On that day, she was approached by a young man while she was in the Béatrice de Provence garden, located at the foot of the Clock Tower in Draguignan. The encounter escalated rapidly as the individual became aggressive. According to a source close to the investigation, the man “tried to kiss her, put his hands under her clothes at breast level, pulled down her skirt and panties while making pelvic movements against her buttocks.”
The woman screamed so loud that the attacker backed off. She fled the scene and filed a complaint with the police, with the Draguignan-Trans police station opening an investigation.
🇫🇷🔴 The Moroccan who killed 19-year-old French woman Philippine Le Noir de Carlan:
🔺Entered France on a visa
🔺Raped a girl just 3 months later
🔺Received a 7-year prison sentence, only served 3
🔺Was housed in a French hotel at taxpayer expense
🔺Had a deportation order… pic.twitter.com/QWwiuF5Fd1
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) September 24, 2025However, the woman decided to get proactive about her case. The clearance rate for sexual crimes in France is a miserable 56 percent, meaning there is a good chance that a crime like this will never be solved.
The woman decided to head back to the park the following day, accompanied by a friend, where she encountered the man who attacked her, according to French news outlet Van-Matin. She succeeded in taking his photo and sent it directly to the investigator handling her case.
🇫🇷‼️ "See? There’s another tramp, coming over and grinning at you like you’re a whore. I just can't take it anymore."
A French girl breaks down in tears over constant harassment and leering from foreign men in Paris. pic.twitter.com/OJAF3Dy62z
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) August 11, 2025In response, Commissioner Louis Wintrebert stated that, “Transmitted to the men of the anti-crime squad, this photograph allowed them to identify him and arrest him on the public highway on the afternoon of April 9, before placing him in police custody.”
The man did not admit to the accusations during a police interrogation, but he made a court appearance on April 11, 2026. This appearance eventually resulted in a referral, and the suspect was remanded in detention while awaiting his trial.
Overall, the government and authorities are failing at their job of protecting women in France, as the crime of rape has more than doubled since 2016. According to France’s official interior ministry statistics body (SSMSI), sexual violence recorded by police stood at around 122,600 cases in 2024, compared to figures that have risen at an average of 11 percent per year between 2016 and 2023. That sustained rate of growth shows a doubling or more of recorded cases over that period. Recorded rapes and attempted rapes specifically continued rising sharply, up 9 percent in 2024 alone.
Approximately 65 percent of all sexual assaults in Paris trains and buses are committed by foreigners. Overall, crime suspects in Paris with a foreign background are responsible for two-thirds of all crimes.
🇫🇷🔴A French journalist says there is a shocking pattern of foreigners raping elderly women in France.
Just this week, a Moroccan migrant was arrested for raping and torturing a 74-year-old woman in Romainville with a telescopic baton.
"She’s raped, a 74-year-old woman, it’s… pic.twitter.com/R5hmO30kxh
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) April 10, 2026
