The French National Assembly has approved new legislation to present persons guilty of such offences as making lewd comments, wolf-whistling, following people, bugging them for their phone number and blocking their path with on-the-spot fines of up to €750.
The legislation which still needs to be debated in the Senate has been described (by Emmanuelle Menard) as a “witchhunt against men” that outlawed “a certain bawdy behaviour which cannot be compared to harassment.”
