The Bastien Vivès controversy enters the legal field.
The designer is the subject of a complaint for the dissemination of child pornography images.
Filed by the association Innocence in danger, the latter also targets its publishers Glénat and the Requins Marteaux, announce this Tuesday RMC and France Info.
The association denounces the dissemination in the artist's works of child pornography, the incitement to commit sexual assaults on minors and the dissemination to a minor of violent messages.
At the heart of a controversy for several days, Bastien Vivès saw his exhibition at the Angoulême Festival be canceled after he was accused of promoting child pornography in certain works and public statements.
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His comic strip "Petit Paul" presents a child with an oversized penis arousing the lust of women, and other titles such as "Les Melons de larage", where a teenager is raped, and "La Décharge Mentale", which depicts sexual relations between minors and an adult man, are the subject of a debate on their conformity with the law.
For Innocence in danger, quoted by RMC, “these boards show many abused minors or showing off their intimacy”.
The International Comics Festival, the most important event of the 9th art, announced on Wednesday the cancellation of the exhibition which was to be devoted from the end of January to this 38-year-old designer.
He invoked "threats" which targeted the author and the organizers.
“It was mainly my words that shocked”
“Today I realize that beyond my works, it was above all my words that shocked,” he wrote Thursday on Instagram.
“I sincerely regret some of my remarks, and more particularly those against the designer Emma, posted on my Facebook wall to which I would like to apologize.
It was gratuitously violent, disrespectful and above all outrageous,” he added.
The controversy also relates to the books of this author, which mix pornography and minors.
“They are part of a humorous burlesque genre.
This provocative tone, I happened to take it up sometimes, in a clumsy way, in my interviews, ”he justified.