{"id":331042,"date":"2026-09-14T06:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331042"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:57:00","slug":"france-foreigners-responsible-for-87-of-thefts-61-of-sexual-violence-on-paris-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331042","title":{"rendered":"France: Foreigners responsible for 87% of thefts, 61% of sexual violence on Paris public transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Remix News \u2013 Remix News Sept 10, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Foreigners account for a massive share of thefts, sexual violence, and robberies on Paris public transport in 2025, according to new government data.<\/p>\n<p>According to compilations from the SSMSI data files, foreigners accounted in 2025 for 87 percent of simple thefts on \u00cele-de-France public transport, 60 percent of robberies, and 38 percent of physical assault.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, foreigners account for 61 percent of sexual violence cases on Paris public transport and its surrounding regions.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Qy991PUrkE\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/crime\/shock-claim-2-out-of-3-crimes-in-france-committed-by-people-with-immigration-background\/\">2 out of 3 crimes in France committed by people with immigration background, says French author<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>National figures for foreigners committing crimes on public transport are lower but still high, approximately 76 percent of simple-theft suspects are foreigners and 71 percent of all theft suspects are foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Some groups are highly overrepresented among foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Maghrebi nationals, for instance, account for about 40 percent of theft suspects in transport nationwide, while making up roughly 2 percent of the national population, according to data analyst Marc Vanguard.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">\uf534 Des chiffres CHOC sur l&#8217;ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 viennent de sortir.<\/p>\n<p>\uf449 Dans les transports en commun, les \u00e9trangers repr\u00e9sentent 87% des mis en cause pour vols simples en \u00cele-de-France, et 76% sur la France enti\u00e8re.<\/p>\n<p>Tous les chiffres dans ce fil \uf9f5\u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WK38I3FlKL\">pic.twitter.com\/WK38I3FlKL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Vanguard (@marc_vanguard) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marc_vanguard\/status\/2097981032112808111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>INSEE\u2019s latest estimate puts foreigners at 9.1 percent of France\u2019s population in 2025, or around 6.3 million people. Their share is higher in \u00cele-de-France, especially in the multicultural Seine-Saint-Denis department, but the crime for foreigners is still disproportionately high.<\/p>\n<p>In total, police and gendarmerie recorded 104,880 victims of theft, violence, or payment fraud in public transport nationwide in 2025, down 2 percent from 2024 and 22 percent from 2016 \u2014 the lowest level in a decade, including the pandemic years.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\uf1eb\uf1f7\u203c\ufe0f A Brazilian tourist was subjected to a vicious sexual assault on a French train on Wednesday morning, and only escaped being raped thanks to the intervention of a brave woman who filmed the assailant to scare him off.<\/p>\n<p>Jhordana, 26, had been visiting her brother in Paris.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pxOTu4fZXf\">pic.twitter.com\/pxOTu4fZXf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RMXnews\/status\/1979984366659903666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Theft without violence still accounts for 77 percent of those victims. Thefts and payment frauds fell but recorded physical and sexual violence rose slightly, jumping 3 percent. Drug-use and trafficking suspects in transport rose another 5 percent after the sharp Olympic-year jump in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that among the \u201cFrench\u201d perpetrators, their potential migration background is not recorded. There are approximately 10 million people in France with a foreign background, including second-generation citizens with a migration background. As a result, a French citizen who is an ethnic Algerian, for instance, would be recorded as a French perpetrator in all crime statistics. France does not keep data on the race of crime suspects, as required by national law.<\/p>\n<p>More broadly speaking, there are estimates that foreigners and French citizens with a migration background account for <a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/crime\/shock-claim-2-out-of-3-crimes-in-france-committed-by-people-with-immigration-background\/\">two out of three crimes in France<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\uf1eb\uf1f7\uf6ab This public awareness campaign in France shows a White man as the harasser on a bus.<\/p>\n<p>French interior ministry stats from recent years have shown that 69% of violent crimes, including sexual assaults and harassment, on public transport in the greater Paris region were\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H3fRwEWtK2\">pic.twitter.com\/H3fRwEWtK2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RMXnews\/status\/1940735859252183336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/france-foreigners-responsible-for-87-of-thefts-61-of-sexual-violence-on-paris-public-transport\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadly speaking, there are estimates that foreigners and French citizens with a migration background account for two out of three crimes in France<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":331046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331042"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331049,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331042\/revisions\/331049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/331046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}