French policeman ordered to pay 1,000 euros for insulting woman who reported sexual assault

A French police officer has been ordered to pay 1,000 euros, or approximately $1,000 after he described a woman who filed a sexual assault complaint as a "whore", a source close to the case said on Saturday.

In a case that sparked outrage in France, the woman, then 34, filed a complaint at a Paris police station in February 2022, saying she had been assaulted in the street after several drinks on a night out.

A male police officer later called her on the phone to ask her to come back and finish the paperwork. After he left a message — thinking he had hung up — he started insulting her, calling her a "whore" three times.