The number of minors recorded as victims of prostitution in France has risen by 43 per cent over four years, according to official police and government data.
That has prompted fresh warnings of an “alarming” trend in the sexual exploitation of increasingly young girls.
Figures published by the National Observatory on Violence Against Women (ONVF), under the interdepartmental unit for protecting women against violence and for combating trafficking in human beings (MIPROF) , show that law enforcement recorded 704 minor victims in 2025.
This breaks down into 416 victims of pimping and 288 victims of recourse to prostitution.
The total represents a marked increase from 659 minors in 2024 and a 43 per cent rise since 2021.
Ninety-four per cent of the recorded minor victims are girls.
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