The majority of crimes and misdemeanors increased in 2023, continuing at a lower rate the increase already recorded in 2022, in particular assault and battery (+7%) and rape and attempted rape (+10%), according to a report from the statistical service of the Ministry of the Interior (SSMSI) published Wednesday.
Homicides pass the symbolic bar of 1000 victims (1010, +5%) and attempted homicides explode (4055, +13%), following a continuous increase since 2020.
The increase in sexual violence (+8%), started since 2018, continues and reflects, according to the SSMSI, a greater propensity of victims to file a complaint in the wake of the Weinstein affair at the end of 2017 and the #metoo movement of freedom of speech.
However, only 5% of victims of sexual violence actually filed a complaint in 2021, according to the latest
“Experienced and felt in terms of security”
survey .
A large majority of perpetrators of crimes and offenses are between 15 and 24 years old.
The increase in willful destruction and damage (+3%), the highest recorded since 2018, is driven by the explosion of these offenses during the week of urban riots (+140% between June 27 and July 3) which followed the death of Nahel, killed by a police officer in Nanterre.
Burglaries continue to increase (+3%), but less sharply and without returning to the pre-health crisis level, as do scams (+7%), vehicle thefts (+5%) and armed thefts. (+2%).
Among the notable declines, thefts and violence in public transport (-10% on average) even if sexual violence is increasing (+4%), violent thefts without weapons (-8%) and thefts without violence against people (-3%).
The vast majority of perpetrators of crimes or offenses are aged 15 to 24.
Foreigners, who account for 8% of the population residing in France, are in the minority in the total number of suspects (17%), but are over-represented in burglaries (38%) and car thefts (40%),
“in connection with the existence of specialized organized crime networks”
, underlines the SSMSI.