Overview
- The Ifop study for Marion La main tendue, based on 3,015 middle- and high-schoolers, maps prevalence at 21% in Grand Est and Normandy and reports incidents across classrooms, canteens and sports.
- Nearly half of victims cite episodes on school trips and 40% on social networks, and one in four say the harassment started in primary school.
- Perpetrators represent 7% of students and two-thirds say they were previously harassed, with most cases collective, often led by a ringleader, and 60% reporting no sanction.
- A conflictual home environment correlates with higher risk, as 42% of youths in frequently quarrelsome households report victimization, with added exposure for students with disabilities, visible differences or disrupted schooling such as repeating a year.
- Separate official statistics show more than 10,000 school-harassment cases recorded by the justice system from 2022 to 2024, many without identified suspects, while 96% of prosecutable cases drew penal responses mostly via alternative measures under the 2022 law.