Harass a female police officer in Paris? Close to abhorrent! (7)
I believe the answer is:
afflict
'harass' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
I don't understand how the rest of the clue works.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for afflict that I've seen before include "Distress severely" , "Painfully affect" , "Cause suffering to" , "Cause to suffer" , "Cause distress to" .)