by combining quantitative and qualitative analyses (data from the National Survey on Violence against Women on the one hand, and ad hoc in-depth interviews on the other), this article explores the relationship between the feeling of INSECURITE, victimation experience and the mobility of women in public spaces, questions raised in general two. While there are relatively few women SPONTANEMENT their fears of going out alone, this can be qualified by looking at their actual practices and the content of their speeches. Many women are not confronted with the question of leaving the evening alone, particularly those who live in a couple or those who, because of the sexual division of labour, lack free time. In addition, an analysis of the practices of outsiders suggests that their night-time deplacements are largely conditioned: there is a veritable mental vigilance that is reoccurring through many and inescapable tactics of Evitation and which is further enhanced by victimation experience. Attacks in public spaces do not seem to hinder women’s mobility. However, the violence, which appears to be the most trivial, limits their libert by posing a threat that gets, at the moment or they occur, and increases the feelings of fear that many women say to prove to the outside.