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It is a phenomenon that continues to increase year after year. Indeed, sexual assaults in transport have become commonplace. For this, a unit called the blast was founded in 2003 to track down these attackers and take them in fact.
THE sexual assault are daily in public transport. Bustle acts that the blast (brigade of combating transportation of transport) tries to stem through special operations to take the aggressors in the act. In eight years, assaults almost doubled with, in 2024, 293 people arrested and 34 imprisoned in Île-de-France.
Élisa Duc has already been attacked seven times in public transport. She no longer wants to borrow them for fear of undergoing a new assault: “I have a lot of anger, I wonder why. Why it happened, why this old guy did this to me. It worries me to be piled up, one on the other, especially in the metro. For the past year I have been traveling by bike, I feel more safe.“”
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