After the association Innocence in danger, The Children's Foundation filed a complaint on Wednesday against Bastien Vives for "dissemination of child pornography images".
A second complaint which targets the designer and the publishing houses which published the three decried comics, according to Franceinfo.
The three comics "deliver representations of minors, in sexually explicit situations, undoubtedly presenting a pornographic nature", according to The Foundation for Children in its complaint, consulted by Franceinfo.
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Sent Tuesday to the public prosecutor of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), it specifically targets Petit Paul (ed. Glénat editions, 2018), The mental discharge (ed. Les Requins Marteaux, 2018) and Les Melons de la Colère ( ed. Hammerhead Sharks, 2011).
Facts "constituting the offense of dissemination of child pornography", denounces the association
In The mental discharge, the author stages "sexual assaults on very young children", denounces the association, which affirms that all the facts are "constitutive of the offense of dissemination of child pornography images", denounces the 'association.
Bastien Vivès, 38 years old and figure of the 9th art, was to be honored with the exhibition "In the eyes of Bastien Vivès", planned in Angoulême during the Comic Strip Festival, at the end of January.
But the direction of the festival announced last week the cancellation of this exhibition, invoking "threats" which targeted the author and the organizers.
An online petition demanding the deprogramming of the exhibition, launched by Arnaud Gallais, founder of the BeBrave France movement, which campaigns against incest and sexual violence against children, had collected 92,000 signatures the day before the deprogramming.
The author apologizes
Critics of Bastien Vivès accuse him, among other things, of having launched calls for violence on Facebook, under a pseudonym, against the feminist cartoonist Emma in 2017. “Today I realize that beyond my works , it was especially my words that shocked, ”he wrote on Instagram on Thursday.
“At no time did I want to hurt victims of crimes and sexual abuse.
And I obviously want, if my words may have offended these people, to offer them my most sincere apologies, ”he added.