Christophe Castaner, president of the LREM group in the National Assembly, pleaded on Tuesday for a hardening of the law against incest by believing that it will be necessary "
if necessary to give the criminal qualification to this crime
".
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We must release this word (of the victims, Editor's note) and if necessary, obviously, give the criminal qualification to this crime, because it is nothing other than a crime
", he considered, noting that the "
stacking of laws
" has "
perhaps
" to date "
not sufficiently protected children
".
Incest does not constitute a specific offense according to the Penal Code: rape or sexual assault committed by an ascendant of the victim is only considered as an aggravating circumstance.
Incestuous rape is punished by a maximum of twenty years of criminal imprisonment.
Referring to the report of the deputy (LREM) Alexandra Louis who proposes to toughen the law, Christophe Castaner assured that the majority "
iron (a) so that the law changes if all the actors consider it necessary that" it changes
”.
"
I am not a specialist but I think it is necessary, and at that moment it does not matter the
legislative
vehicle
", he added, while the Senate will examine Thursday a bill aiming to create a new sex crime to protect minors under the age of thirteen.
"
If a change in the law but also a prevention policy, work at the level of school medicine make it possible to identify and ensure that we can fight against this scourge, let's do it, let's not hesitate
", he urged.
In the wake of the Olivier Duhamel affair, renowned political scientist accused by his daughter-in-law Camille Kouchner of incestuous rapes on his teenage twin, a #Metooinceste hashtag has since Saturday generated “
hundreds
” of testimonies on Twitter, according to the feminist movement #Noustoutes.