Overview

• The cour d’appel de Montpellier ordered the release under strict judicial control of 59-year-old Annie F., accused of sexual violence against nine children, forbidding her from contact with minors or residence in Hérault.
• The Paris court of appeal upheld judicial control for nurse Juliette S. in the André-Grégoire hospital neonatal assault case after videos of alleged abuses provoked public outrage, while her companion’s status remains pending.
• On August 13 in Paris’s 18th arrondissement, a woman suffered critical evisceration wounds in a domestic assault; her partner was detained and their three-year-old child placed into care.
• A Nanterre cutter attack victim from August 9 has now been heard by investigators, although the 60-year-old suspect remains medically unfit for custody or interrogation.
• These rulings underscore tensions between France’s presumption of liberty in pre-trial detention and mounting calls for tougher preventive measures against gender-based violence.