The feminist association published the results of an “activist survey” this Saturday, calling for “global awareness.”
#NousToutes sounds the alarm. The feminist collective published new figures this Saturday regarding sexual and sexist violence perpetrated by police, calling for “global awareness” of the issue.
Between June 24 and October 8, 2025, the collective said it received 207 responses – to a short, five-question questionnaire – reporting sexual and gender-based violence allegedly perpetrated by police and police.
The majority of people who responded (78.6%) testified as victims of this violence, 9.7% as relatives of victims, and 11.7% as witnesses, according to a survey conducted in collaboration with the investigative media Disclose, published in Libération this Saturday.
According to this survey, in about nine out of ten testimonies, the attacker was male, and the majority of perpetrators (48.9%) worked in the national police force. 18% belongs to the gendarmerie and 15% to the municipal police. In about one in five cases, the victim does not know this information or does not want to reveal it, says #Noustoutes. 67% of the testimonies received reported sexual violence: sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual exhibition or rape.
“Better understand and fight”
According to this research, 42% of acts of violence occur when victims come to seek help from the police or gendarmerie (35% when filing a complaint or complaint relates to an act of violence and 11% when it relates to another act). Approximately 6% of testimonies reported violence in the professional context of being a police officer.
The #Noustoutes collective specified that this was an “activist survey” that was not “intended to produce a representative sample,” but sought to provide additional data “to better understand and combat the systemic phenomenon of police violence.”
In June, Disclose and Libération published two separate investigations into sexual violence in the police force.
These articles reported that more than 400 people, mostly women, reported being harassed, assaulted or raped by police officers over the past twelve years.
The police and gendarmerie management assured at that time that they would act as soon as the case was proven, reporting 18 cases of sexual violence recorded since 2012 on the part of the police and 223 disciplinary sanctions imposed on the gendarmerie over the past three years.
