Janice Turner gives us some background:

hen Thibaut Rey was radioed by a colleague to say a man in the cosmetics department was behaving suspiciously, he went to the CCTV room to watch. It was late summer in Provence, so many women browsing the E.Leclerc hypermarket were bare-legged. Walking among them a man was carefully positioning a cool box beneath their skirts. Out of it poked a mobile phone.

The man, in his sixties, was deftly moving from woman to unwitting woman, and Rey, a security guard, was incensed. He ran on to the shop floor and grabbed the man’s arm. “You are a disgusting person,” he said. “I swear if she was my mother, I’d rip your head off.” One woman shrugged: she needed to finish her shopping. But Rey implored another to press charges and called the police.

Rey didn’t see the man’s snaps as a bit of fun. He thought of his responsibility for women’s safety and did his job. When police officers arrived they didn’t just reprimand this dirty-minded pensioner (as Paris cops had when they caught him in 2010) they scrolled through his phone, then went to his home and seized his computer. They too did their jobs. Because of Rey, who will now receive the Légion d’honneur, Dominique Pelicot was caught and he, along with 50 of the rapists he recruited to violate his wife, Gisèle, was brought to justice.

And because of all that we now know even more about the infinite contempt some men have for women.

Because it’s not just for sexy fun, now is it. If it were, you would only need the one, and you could get it much more easily than by prowling department stores to upskirt women. No: the force, the lack of consent, the insult, the creeping, the prying, the deception, the sneaking are what make it fun. Same with the drugging-to-rape.

This act of diligence by a decent man was pivotal. Yet so too was an act of dereliction by a careless woman in a key British case. Called to a drive-through McDonald’s in Swanley, Kent, where a man had exposed himself to female staff, PC Samantha Lee was handed CCTV footage, a car registration and credit card receipts. But shoving these in her pocket, Lee — who sold semi-clad selfies on the OnlyFans website as “Officer Naughty” — did not inquire further. Three days later that man, Wayne Couzens, killed Sarah Everard.

I wonder how Officer Naughty is doing now.

And anyone wondering if British men would participate in a degrading mass sexual encounter should consider the queue in the London Airbnb rented by an OnlyFans performer, Lily Phillips, in her quest to have sex with 100 men. Phillips was of course, unlike Gisèle Pelicot, fully consenting, although the stunt left her shaken and crying. But these men were waiting for a designated five minutes’ joyless, mechanical grind on a bed strewn with used condoms. What drew both groups of men to such depravity? The answer, no surprise, is online porn.

Plus deep-seated hatred of women.