[Eva]

This article made me wonder what the rates of rape are in Paris. We hear about the car burning and the attacks on the police and other public service officers, but nothing about attacks on women.

[Eurotwit]

Here are a few related articles:

Sexual assault is rampant in France's crumbling housing projects. Now a gang-rape victim has broken the silence. Will society confront the crisis?

Since 1999, rapes within the banlieue have increased by 15% to 20% every year.

http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2002/1202/crime/bellil.htm

The 18 male accused are said to have shared the girl around for a series of forced sex acts carried out in public toilets or the basements of blocks of flats.

Sociologists say such gang rapes are relatively common among gangs of immigrant teenagers from rundown suburbs around Paris.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200209/s677752.htm

France in shock over gang rape

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/europe/1456204.stm

In November we reported how Fadel Amara's charity organised a march for a young Muslim woman, 19-year old Chahrazad Belayni, who was deliberately set on fire by a Muslim male whose sexual advances she had rejected, on November 13. The Moroccan girl was set on fire in the street, received burns over 60% of her body, and, according to the Times today, she still remains in a coma.

The Times also reported that on Friday (31 March), a trial detailed another similar attack from a Parisian suburb. Jamal Derrar is accused of burning to death a 17 year old girl, Sohane Benziane in 2002, in Vitry-Sur-Seine. She broke his order to stay away from "his territory", and the trial heard that he poured petrol over the girl's head, before he pulled out a cigarette lighter. He flicked it alight and extinguished it several times to reduce her to tears before he immolated her.

http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/001868.html

[MadIvan]

This article made me wonder what the rates of rape are in Paris. We hear about the car burning and the attacks on the police and other public service officers, but nothing about attacks on women.

As soon as I find anything about that, I'll post it.

Regards, Ivan

[Atlantic Friend]

I didn't find stats for Paris specifically, but here's what I found on the Nationmaster website which offers heaps of stats for various countries :

Murders (1998-2000):

United States : 12,658 (per capita : 0.042802 per 1,000 people)
France : 1,051 (per capita : 0.017327 per 1,000 people)

Rapes (1998-2000) :

United States 89,110 (per capita : 0.301318 per 1,000 people)
France : 8,458 (per capita : 0.139442 per 1,000 people)

Robberies (1998-2000) :

United States : 409,670 (per capita : 1.38527 per 1,000 people)
France : 24,304 (per capita : 0.400686 per 1,000 people)

Burglaries (1998-2000) :

United States : 2,099,700 (per capita : 7.09996 per 1,000 people)
France : 370,993 (per capita : 6.11634 per 1,000 people)