Overview
- An Ifop barometer for Marion la main tendue reports 17% of collégiens and lycéens are repeat victims and 7% identify as perpetrators, with roughly two-thirds of perpetrators saying they were previously victimized.
- Education Minister Édouard Geffray says 282 elementary pupils identified as harassers were transferred in two years, with the total now likely above 300, and disciplinary councils related to harassment have sharply increased in secondary schools.
- Since 2022, about 600 prosecutions have been engaged in school harassment cases, with more than 10,000 cases recorded by prosecutors and 240 convictions through the end of 2024.
- The Ifop study lists mockery, group exclusion, insults and physical violence as the most frequent behaviors, occurring mainly in playgrounds, corridors and classrooms and extending to social networks for 40% of cases.
- The study highlights enforcement gaps as 60% of self-acknowledged perpetrators say they were never sanctioned, while a separate Asmae–Odoxa poll finds nine in ten families think harassment has increased and one in three report a child victim.