In total, 4,823 victims, 89% of whom were women, were able to receive support from the 44 associations that responded to the annual survey published on Thursday.

In France, 7,285 people were victims of exploitation or human trafficking in 2024, according to an annual survey published Thursday, October 16, established based on the identification of associations that were able to support two-thirds of them, the vast majority of whom were women victims of sexual exploitation.

Thus, 4,823 victims, 89% of whom were women, were able to receive support from the 44 associations that responded to the survey, conducted by the Interministerial Mission for the Protection of Women Against Violence and the Fight Against Human Trafficking (Miprof).

Among the people supported last year, 86% were victims of sexual exploitation, the others were exploited for work, particularly domestic work (11%), for criminal activity (2%) or forced begging (1%).

More than one adult victim accompanied (52%) was a minor at the start of the exploitation. Nearly a third (31%) of victims were exploited by a family member, including 44% by their spouse.

Victims exploited as part of a network

Three-quarters of the victims accompanied were "exploited as part of a network" , whatever its size, which organized their "transfer to France" most often (72%), and they were accommodated by their exploiter (66%), or even at his home (27%).

More than eight out of ten victims of sexual exploitation (83%) were addicted to medication or drugs supplied by those who exploited them "in order to make them dependent and disinhibit them" .

Although nearly two-thirds (64%) were able to be referred to appropriate medical care, "the lasting health consequences of these poly-consumptions and poly-addictions" on these people "are a major source of concern for associations and health professionals ," the report says.

Furthermore, directing victims "towards a suitable accommodation solution remains one of the major challenges for support associations" , which were able to offer one to two-thirds of them.