French women go online to denounce police handling of sexual assault cases

Women in France have launched an online campaign in protest at police handling of sexual assault cases (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

One rape victim was asked by Paris police what she wore that day, and why she did not struggle more. Another woman was forced to fondle herself to demonstrate a sexual assault to a sceptical police officer.

They are among thousands of French women who have denounced in a new online campaign the shocking response of police officers victim-blaming them or mishandling their complaints as they reported sexual abuse.