“The cost of maintaining the Civic is insignificant compared to the cost of rejecting it. » It is with these words that around sixty personalities challenged Emmanuel Macron in an article published on the website WorldThursday 7 September.
Among the signatories, Emmanuelle Béart, who a few days earlier had revealed that she had been a victim of incest during her adolescence, but also Anna Mouglalis, Vanessa Springora and Camille Kouchner. Everyone is calling for the maintenance of CIIVISE, the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence against Children, which is due to end on 31 December after presenting its conclusions in a final report a month earlier.
CIIVISE, an essential link in the protection of children from sexual violence
Created in 2021, this independent Commission has published several reports, collecting the words of incest victims and advising public authorities to better protect children in the future. In her latest report delivered in June, Ciivise asked for her mandate to be renewed in order to continue her work.
Closure of civil society”, is to tell the victims: ‘We have listened to you enough’ »insist the signatories of the platform, who recall that in just two years of existence, this commission has made it possible to collect 25,000 testimonies throughout France.
But, more than a collection of testimonies accompanied by recommendations, CIIVISE has above all ” revealed the unbearable scale of sexual violence against children “continues the article, stating that today, ” three to five children per class are victims of incest and condemned to silence “.
[La CIIVISE] he also revealed that emerging from silence is long, very long. Very often it is after reaching the age of majority and once they are safe that victims finally report the rapes and sexual assaults they have suffered (on average, this happens at the age of 44). They therefore find themselves facing an institutional system that questions their words. The two years of existence of the commission cannot be enough.
Sexual violence: “Mr President of the Republic, the cost of maintaining Civil Society is insignificant compared to the cost of denial”, in Le Monde, 7 September 2023.
The government has not yet responded.
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