Of the 225,000 women who were the victims of violence in France last year, less than one in five pressed charges, according to official statistics. Mr. Macron said the accounts made him feel “horror and shame” as a man and a politician. “We are not a puritan society,” Mr. Macron said, echoing a longstanding perception in France that gender relations are different here than elsewhere, especially in the United States. Mr. Macron said he favored 15 as the threshold but would let lawmakers decide. “A cultural fight is won with images,” Marlène Schiappa, France’s junior minister for gender equality, said before Mr. Macron’s speech.

Source: New York Times November 25, 2017 21:56 UTC