French film giant Gérard Depardieu has been charged with rape and sexual assault, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday, the latest in a string of such allegations against prominent figures in France.
After nearly 10 years of legal battles that initially led to an acquittal, a former French government minister has been jailed after a court found him guilty of raping an employee during "foot massages" in his office.
A series of high-profile cases of incest, rape and sexual abuse has shaken France, with protesters demanding real systemic change. Has the Me Too movement finally arrived in France?
Covid-19 lockdowns sparked a big drop in the number of reported crimes in France last year, except for domestic violence and rape cases which continued to rise, the interior ministry said on Thursday.
The subject of inter-family sexual abuse is at present one of the most discussed topics in France, but what has sparked this - some say long-overdue - conversation?
Five French teenagers accused of gang raping a Norwegian woman in a holiday apartment in the popular Spanish resort of Benidorm have been charged with sexual abuse, authorities said.
Six firemen in Paris were set to be charged on Monday over the alleged gang rape of a 20-year-old Norwegian student at a fire station in the city, legal sources said.
A Canadian tourist who has accused two Paris police officers of rape reiterated her claim Friday after two weeks of testimony by witnesses who contested elements of her account.
The father-in-law of Pippa Middleton, whose sister Kate is married to Britain's Prince William, has been charged in France with the rape of a minor, a legal source told AFP on Friday, as a family spokesperson called the allegation "untrue and scandalous".
France plans to make 15 the age of sexual consent after a public outcry over two cases of sex involving 11-year-old girls, Equality Minister Marlene Schiappa said on Monday.
French prosecutors on Friday said they had dropped an investigation into claims that Budget Minister Gérald Darmanin raped a woman who sought his help in having her criminal record expunged in 2009.
There was anger and shock in France this week after it emerged that prosecuters had deemed an 11-year-old's sexual relationship with a 28-year-old man was consensual.
A second French policeman faces being charged with raping a young man with his baton, just weeks after the alleged rape of a man named Theo by a policeman sparked anger and violence among young people in the suburbs of Paris.
Morocco's King Mohammed VI will cover the legal fees of pop singer Saad Lamjarred, imprisoned in France charged with "aggravated rape", the official MAP news agency reported on Tuesday.
The sexual assault of a girl, aged 8, while she was on holiday in the Ardeche region of southern France has brought back memories of a serial rapist, who targeted girls on camp sites in the same area several years ago.
A man suspected of following two women home from a Paris Metro station before raping them in their own homes has been arrested by police, who believe he was just about to strike again.
An unprecedented study of rapes in Paris has revealed that the profile of an attacker is a 34-year old man, jobless and foreign. But women's rights groups doubt the study's validity.
The broadcast of an alleged rape by two men on a “groggy” woman on social media site Snapchat has caused outrage in France and led to police opening an investigation.
