From recent accusations by Coline Berry to the controversial book by Gabriel Matzneff, including the law on consent, crimes of incest and pedophilia remain more than ever in the news.
A scourge that was taboo for too long, which made 162 personalities from the artistic world react in the name of the Collective for Children.
Actors, directors, writers, musicians have signed a platform calling for the protection of children from sexual crimes by setting the threshold for non-consent at 15 and 18 in the event of incest.
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This column, to appear in
Le Parisien Week-end on Friday
, was written by Tristane Banon.
She was one of the first in the 2000s to tell of having been sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
“
This is mass crime we are talking about (...).
We who want firm laws to dissuade these unacceptable acts, all of us who are signing this petition today, ask you that this threshold of non-consent be set at 15 years, 18 in the event of incest
”, states the text s 'addressing those who "
make the laws
".
He quotes estimates according to which “
ten million French people
” have been victims of sexual violence before the age of 18, and recalls “
that a minor child (is) raped every hour in France
”.
It is signed by Juliette Binoche, Zabou Breitman, Isabelle Carré, Anny Duperey, Line Renaud, Céline Sallette, Louis Bertignac, Dany Boon, Thomas Dutronc, Guillaume Gallienne, Patrice Leconte, Claude Lelouch ...
The forum qualifies as "
small progress
" the draft bill Billon adopted by the Senate on January 21 to set the threshold for non-sexual consent at 13 years.
“
It's good but it's insufficient.
This is good but it is dangerous (...) Our expectations are far too high for that,
”says Tristane Banon, referring to the recent case of Olivier Duhamel, figure of the Parisian intelligentsia and renowned constitutionalist accused of incest , or even the testimonies of Christine Angot, Catherine Allégret and all those, “
anonymous
”, who “
by tens of thousands
” are now expressed under the hashtag #MeTooInceste.
"
After the victims have found the strength and courage to open the eyes of society wide, you who make the laws cannot be the only ones to keep them partially closed,
" says the author.
"
It is only by recognizing the impossibility of consenting to incest before age 18 that your progress will be remarkable,
" she adds.
The government said on Tuesday it was "in
favor
" of any act of sexual penetration committed by an adult on a minor under the age of 15 now automatically constitutes a crime, without it being possible to question the consent of the victim. .