Emmanuel Macron in favor of including consent in French law. The notion of consent is not explicitly mentioned in matters of rape.
Currently, article 222-23 of the penal code defines rape as “any act of sexual penetration, of whatever nature, or any oral-genital act committed on the person of another’. “This will allow us to deepen what Gisèle Halimi began to do in 1978 during the Aix-en-Provence trial,” reacted Violaine Lucas.