Sexual and gender-based violence in universities: “I didn’t really know who to complain to”

It was four years ago in one of the corridors of the faculty of biology in Paris. “I was going to class when a boy who introduced himself as a computer science student put a hand on my buttocks, says Anna (name has been changed) then in L3. I was panicked and paralyzed at the same time. I confided in friends, but I didn’t really know who to complain to. At that time, we didn’t talk too much about sexual assault, maybe because we were a lot of girls in biology. In the end, I kept it to myself. The easiest thing is to bury the stuff, like for this gay student, sexually assaulted during an integration evening when we were in L2. He finally had to change careers. »