The wife of the head of state, Brigitte Macron, said on Sunday wishing for a judicial reform to fight against incest, a crime recently highlighted by the Olivier Duhamel affair. “It’s difficult to talk about it, it’s courageous to talk about it”, more “It is absolutely necessary that these acts are known and that these acts are not silenced”, said Brigitte Macron on TF1, on the occasion of the launch of the Yellow Pieces operation which helps young hospitalized people.
Asked about the need for “Judicial reform” that the executive is thinking about, she first replied that it was a “Land on which” she didn’t want to go, before adding: “I wish it, I hope so, I call my wishes”.
Previously, she had pointed out that the theme “Central this year” of the Yellow Pieces operation was “The hospital, screening for violence, for all forms of violence, be it physical violence, psychological violence, sexual violence against children sponsored by teams who will be totally” dedicated.
A hashtag #Metooinceste
“Because we realized that one day or another, all these children, all these teenagers have passed or are going to the hospital”. “It is necessary, at that moment that we identify them, that we include them in a course of care”, she added, stressing that it kept her “Particularly at heart”.
Incest remains a deeply taboo subject in society and still minimized, while it is massive in France with nearly one in ten people potentially affected.
A hashtag #Metooinceste has aroused since Saturday ” hundreds “ of testimonials on Twitter, according to the feminist movement #Noustoutes.
Minister for Citizenship Marlène Schiappa had previously stated on LCI that she “Would support the bill of the deputy Alexandra Louis to harden the law on the questions of incest, because it proposes to create specific offenses and to put back flat these crimes there”.
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