According to a study, 77% of French people often adopt this violent behavior, and for more than one in ten, it is even daily.
Violence is unfortunately present in daily life, and the French are not left out. 77% of them share a violent habit at towards other people, according to a recent Viavoice survey, conducted for Macif and the Jean Jaurès Foundation among 2,000 adults living in France. 65% have this behavior “from time to time”, but 12% resort to it “every day”. This even rises to 17% for 25-34 year olds.
According to the study, more than 8 out of 10 French people believe that this form of violence has increased in recent years. She expresses herself mainly on social networks, but also in the street or in the car. 82% deplore this phenomenon because it does not allow “problems to be resolved”, and even for 75%, it is not necessary.
What exactly are we talking about? Well, these 77% of French people actually resort to insults towards others. This demonstrates a certain trivialization of verbal violence in our society in recent years. Some insults are very common, such as “connard” or “conasse”, cited by 48% of respondents. For 27%, these are even the ones they use most often, followed by “con” and “conne”. “Amorous” comes in third place with 31% of people having mentioned it, mainly among those aged 50 and over.
63% of French people also believe that this verbal violence can then encourage physical violence. A situation experienced by 33% of those questioned and mainly among those aged 18-24 and 25-34 (43 and 42% of those concerned). This violence is often attributed to a lack of civility (56%), discipline (38%) and education (33%). For more than half of the French, “doing prevention” would therefore be possible to avoid getting to that point.
As a reminder, such behavior can be criminally punishable. Service-public.fr reminds you that if "you are the victim of an insult, you can file a complaint so that the perpetrator of the offense is punished. You can also request damages for the harm suffered". A public insult is punished more severely than an insult in a private setting: up to 12,000 euros fine against only 38 euros, an amount that increases if the insult is discriminatory.