“At what time in 2025, in France, you do not allow me to get on a bus because my skirt is too short?” »In an undated video, widely relayed on Tiktok in recent days, a young woman denounces the sexist behavior of a driver Ratpwhich forbade him to get on the bus because of his outfit.
While she wanted to get on a bus from line 108, connecting Joinville-le-Pont to Champigny-sur-Marne, in Val-de-Marne, A young woman was denied access by the driver. “What did she do?” Asks a person present. “If you want to climb, lower your clothes a little,” replies the driver to the young woman, dressed in a mini-skirt, a tank top and a hooded sweatshirt, before closing the bus doors and restarting.
🇫🇷 🚌: If you want to climb, lower your clothes a little “: here is what a RATP bus driver said to a woman, refusing the entrance to the bus on the grounds that her outfit would be too short. pic.twitter.com/SXZu6q1mq1
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Facing the camera, after being left on the sidewalk, the young woman then shows her outfit. “It’s short, but I have shorts!” And even in fact (…). Are you a bus driver, are you the police? You are who to tell me Go down your clothes ? Close your… ”, she denounces. “I’m going to go to the room [de sport]so yes, I’m naked, I’m going to be hot, I’m going to sweat. (…) I enter the bus as I want, we are in France, I dress as I want, ”she annoys.
“Men, I can no longer see you”
“Since when is stipulated that we have no right to take the bus if you have a short skirt and a neckline?” If I wanted to go with a Ras-La-Fouf skirt, I do it actually, we are in France! “Continues the young woman, before adding:” I have the right to get on a bus even if my skirt is short and I have a neckline. »»
She then continues the video seated in a car. “At what time in 2025, in France, you do not allow me to get on a bus because supposedly my skirt is too short?” ». And the young woman concludes: “Men, I can see you anymore. »»
The sanctioned driver
With the Parisian, and in a message posted on X, the RATP said it was “informed of a video circulating on Tiktok” in which “a driver makes inappropriate remarks vis-à-vis a traveler”. The Parisian Régie claims to have “directly contacted the traveler by private message”, Monday, May 19.
An internal survey was also opened by RATP “to shed light on this video,” said the Régie. Indicating that the driver was identified, the RATP specifies that it “was immediately withdrawn from the driving” and that a disciplinary procedure was initiated against him.
The RATP was notified of a video circulating on Tiktok in which a driver makes inappropriate remarks towards a traveler. As of last night, the RATP directly contacted the traveler by private message and opened an internal investigation to shed light on …
– RATP👌 customer service (@Clientsratp) May 20, 2025
“His behavior is contrary to the principles and values of the RATP which requires impeccable behavior to all of its agents,” continues the management.
In May 2019, a similar story had already involved a traveler and a driver of the RATP. The latter had refused him access due to his skirt. “You just have to dress well,” he said, according to the young woman’s father. The Paris Régie had opened a disciplinary procedure against the bus driver.