
Share of sexual violence cases closed without prosecution in France 2021, by type
rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment). Among the rape cases, almost 80 percent were closed without prosecution. This proportion rose to 83.24 percent for sexual harassment cases, and more than 78 percent of sexual assault cases were dismissed.
In 2020, the public prosecutors' offices of the French courts of first instance dealt with 44,230 perpetrators for whom the nature of the case involved an offence of sexual violence against a minor or adult (