“This online reporting is not intended to replace the filing of a complaint,” underlines this Friday the RATP, which has just opened a new service to fight against violence in Parisian transport.
It now offers the possibility for users to report an attack via an online form, available on the maratp.fr website.
But it “will nevertheless allow victims to report themselves at any time, particularly from home, even if they did not do so immediately when they were on the network”.
Thanks to the data collected, RATP hopes to “better support victims” and “apprehend and treat acts of violence on its network”.
The first “secure place” at Auber station
In addition to this measure, RATP announced two other initiatives: the launch of a study to propose communication campaigns based on "nudge" - a technique consisting of influencing individual behavior through incentives and a campaign to remind people travelers the devices available to report an attack, such as the number 3117.
RATP and the regional transport organizing authority Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) have stepped up initiatives in recent months to combat the phenomenon of sexist and sexual assault in transport.
In December, they inaugurated the first “secure place” in the Ile-de-France network at the Auber station, where victims or threatened people can be welcomed.
The RATP has also generalized on-demand descents on the bus network in the evening, from 10 p.m.
A major poster campaign was also launched in November.
“Nine out of ten women say they have suffered verbal or physical attacks on public transport,” Élisabeth Borne, then Prime Minister, declared at the time.