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Non-citizen crime trends

Recorded justice outcomes over the years.

Foreign nationals

Sexual offences

France, including overseas departments · Police suspects · SSMSI

Data 2016–2025 · Source retrieved 17 Sept 2026

Retrieval confirms when the source was collected, not that the underlying figures describe today.

SSMSI · French Ministry of the Interior

Published 30 Jan 2026 · Retrieved 17 Sept 2026

Source period: 2016-01-012025-12-31

Release schedule: Annual; reviewed before publication.

Next release: No confirmed next publication date is recorded here.

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79,916
Selected period totalpeople · foreign nationals2016–2025

Sum of annual person counts for the selected years. A person can appear in more than one year; this is not a count of unique people or crimes.

Foreign nationals over time

20162025

These are recorded suspects, not findings of guilt or convictions.

Definitions & limitations

People recorded as suspects in offences cleared by police or gendarmerie. Suspicion is not conviction. Counts may refer to offences committed earlier and the same person can appear in multiple categories or years. Suppressed homicide nationality cells in 2016 remain missing. These indicators are not an exhaustive, mutually exclusive all-crime total. Categories overlap and must not be added together. Nationality does not identify birthplace, naturalization or immigration status.

These data identify citizenship or nationality. They do not separately identify foreign-born people or naturalized citizens. Counts are not population rates, and changes can reflect reporting, enforcement or justice-system practices.

Yearly data

Foreign nationals: Sexual offences, France, including overseas departments. people.
PeriodForeign nationals · peopleSource notes
2025 · calendar year10,676
2024 · calendar year10,303
2023 · calendar year9,877
2022 · calendar year9,313
2021 · calendar year8,491
2020 · calendar year6,882
2019 · calendar year7,048
2018 · calendar year6,643
2017 · calendar year5,631
2016 · calendar year5,052

Foreign-born and naturalized-citizen series are not separately reported in these datasets. Naturalized citizens are included in citizen counts and are not added to this graph. Data coverage →