https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A senior official in France's culture ministry has been charged with sexual assault and drugs offences for drugging women with diuretics to make them urinate in front of him, judicial sources said Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20191109/french-official-charged-with-drugging-women-to-make-them-pee Sat, 09 Nov 2019 07:44:22 +0100 french-official-charged-with-drugging-women-to-make-them-pee Fashion photographer David Hamilton threatened Tuesday to sue his accusers after four former child models said he raped them. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161122/brit-photographer-vows-to-sue-after-child-models-allege-rape-in-france Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:08:04 +0100 brit-photographer-vows-to-sue-after-child-models-allege-rape-in-france Hundreds of viewers in France have lodged formal complaints after a male presenter kissed a woman's breast without her consent on a live TV show. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161017/man-kisses-womans-breast-live-on-french-tv Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:55:36 +0200 man-kisses-womans-breast-live-on-french-tv France's Finance Minister Michel Sapin was forced on Friday to deny that he ever "twanged the knickers" of a female journalist, after the claim was made in a book and led to calls for him to step down. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160422/french-minister-forced-to-deny-twanging-journalists-knickers Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:33:06 +0200 french-minister-forced-to-deny-twanging-journalists-knickers A 19-year-old American student was the victim of a shocking daytime sex attack as she passed through a Paris Metro station. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160304/american-student-sexually-assaulted-on-paris-metro Fri, 04 Mar 2016 10:49:03 +0100 american-student-sexually-assaulted-on-paris-metro A large proportion of French people blame - or partly blame - the victims for being raped and sexually assaulted, a new survey has found. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160302/four-in-ten-french-blame-sex-attacks-on-flirty-victims Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:48:20 +0100 four-in-ten-french-blame-sex-attacks-on-flirty-victims Picasso's former long-time lover Françoise Gilot has written a new book in which she says there are fewer rapes in France because people are less repressed and that the women smile at wolf whistlers. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151102/picassos-muse-rape-france Mon, 02 Nov 2015 12:30:42 +0100 picassos-muse-rape-france The number of sexual assaults and rapes reported to police in France is rising, according to new statistics which revealed that one occurs every forty minutes across the country. But a women's rights group tells The Local the problem is far more serious. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150811/sexual-assault-reported-every-40-minutes-in-france Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:13:56 +0200 sexual-assault-reported-every-40-minutes-in-france Three Frenchmen, two of them professional tennis players, were charged on Tuesday with the gang rape of an American female player at a hotel after-party during a tournament in Greece. All five accused have claimed they are "innocent young people in jail." https://www.thelocal.fr/20131015/french-tennis-pros-charged-with-gang-rape-of-us-player Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:50:00 +0200 french-tennis-pros-charged-with-gang-rape-of-us-player A French father of five has been charged with raping three of his daughters, one as young as 15. The shocking development comes a month after the family were found confined to their filthy council house for the last year. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130222/french-father-charged-with-raping-disabled-daughters Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:32:00 +0100 french-father-charged-with-raping-disabled-daughters University students in Lyon have been warned to be on their guard as police hunt a knife-wielding rapist they believe is behind five attacks on women in the city in recent months. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130218/students-warned-after-rapist-strikes-five-times-in-lyon Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:23:00 +0100 students-warned-after-rapist-strikes-five-times-in-lyon