Since the Angoulême Festival announced an exhibition dedicated to the designer, the name of Bastien Vivès has been stirring up social networks.
The 38-year-old designer is accused of disseminating child pornography.
While on December 14, the festival chose to cancel the exhibition
In the eyes of Bastien Vivès
, due to threats made against him, the tension does not seem to calm down.
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According to France Info and RMC, a child protection association filed a complaint on December 19 against Bastien Vivès.
Innocence in danger accuses the author of “dissemination of child pornography”, of “incitement to commit sexual assaults on minors” and of “dissemination to a minor of violent messages”.
The complaint would also target Glénat and the Requins Marteaux, publishers of the designer.
In its complaint, the association relies on three works published years ago:
The Melons of Anger
(2011),
Petit Paul
(2018) and
La Décharge Mentale
(2018).
Each of these books, explicitly presented as pornographic comics, is accompanied by a warning from the publisher and a statement prohibiting sale to minors.
The release of
Petit Paul,
in particular, had already been controversial for a few days in 2018. Another association had then made a report, without going so far as to file a complaint.
Report closed for lack of offense a few months later.
After his deprogramming of the Angoulême festival, Bastien Vivès spoke on his Instagram account.
On a post published on December 15, he assured
“to condemn pedocrime, as well as its apology and its trivialization”
.
The cartoonist apologized at the same time to the people he would have hit and recalled that his books should not be read
“under the prism of complacency towards these crimes”
.
