France introduced an anti-FGM law in 1983 with the threat of 10 years in prison, or up to 20 years for cutting a girl under the age of 15, and with parents considered accomplices to the crime.
Hundreds of parents and “cutters” have been jailed.
Dr Emmanuelle Piet, a physician who works in the heavily-migrant populated Seine-Saint-Denis region, says that he does not “give a damn about cultural sensibilities. It’s more important to prevent a violent crime being committed against a child or woman.
“People talk of culture and tradition, but children have a fundamental human right not to be mutilated,” he added.
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