Question 17874 — women

Summary

Mr. Marc Chavent draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister, responsible for equality between women and men and the fight against discrimination, to the absence of consolidated data relating to female genital mutilation suffered by young girls residing in France during stays in their family's country of origin. He recalls that a study published in 2026 estimates the number of number of excised women living in France, including more than 10,000 minors who have already undergone mutilation. These acts are not committed on national territory but during stays abroad, most often during summer school holidays. However, no organization counts the number of young girls concerned each year: the latest national reference survey by the National Institute of Demographic Studies is based on data collected between 2007 and 2009. The MP underlines that article 222-16-2 of the penal code makes French law applicable to this violence committed abroad on a minor habitually residing in France and that article 222-10 of the same code punishes with fifteen years of criminal imprisonment violence resulting in mutilation of a fifteen-year-old minor, a penalty increased to twenty years when the perpetrator is an ascendant. No assessment However, there is no public record of the number of parents prosecuted and convicted on this basis. He observes that the absence of any prosecution, compared to the thousands of minors concerned, would reflect a clear gap between the severity of the penalties provided for by law and their effective application. He asks him if the Government intends to commission a new national survey on the prevalence of female genital mutilation in France and according to which calendar, and to communicate to him, for the last ten years, the number of prosecutions initiated and convictions handed down against parents who had their daughter excised abroad.

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