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society cannot be permanently angry with itself, ”
said Paul Ricoeur. Yet this is what is happening and with the best of intentions. Who would be against the idea of taking better account of the words of victims so long neglected? Unfortunately, from this generous principle, drifts are observed more and more which end up cracking the pillars on which our legal civilization has been based since the Romans. And in particular the prescription. Faced with the horror of certain sexual crimes, public opinion seems, in recent cases, to want to make these acts imprescriptible.
The prosecution sometimes goes in this direction because, in some cases where it knows that the action is prescribed, it still opens an action without possible legal follow-up in order to reassure the victims.
The idea is to proclaim that “the offense appears to be serious”, even if the facts are time-barred.
Criminal lawyer Marie Dosé criticizes what she calls a
"race ...
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