“We cannot support a justice that overturns the blame”: in a forum, personalities ask for the release of Priscilla Majani

“ By attacking protective mothers, justice demonstrates, despite the official discourse, that it denies their right report incest and to protect children and that he is failing in his duty. »

In an article published on Politics On Friday 22 September many activists, intellectuals and even artists are calling for his release Priscilla Majanimother jailed since last January for wanting to protect her daughter from incest.

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Among the signatories we include the journalist Giulia Foischildren’s rights activist Lyes LouffokOR Emmanuelle Beartwho herself recently testified that she was a victim of incest.

“ Incest and child abuse are not class crimes »

Launched by Priscilla Majani’s lawyers, the text denounces” the unbearable blindness of justice stuck in denial) “. We remember that last January Majani was sentenced on appeal to more than two years in prison for “abduction and failure to represent a child”. Eleven years ago, after her daughter, who was five years old at the time, had accused her father of rape and sexual assault and within a few days her complaint had been rejected, she fled to Switzerland to seek protection .

Thus the text, which first of all extensively discusses the alarming figures of incest and the methods that push victims into silence, denounces: ” But who can think like that? Who admits to saying: ‘your daughter may have been raped by her father but if in doubt, give him your son’? Not Priscilla Majani. And what choice did you have available to you in the face of this paradoxical injunction? For this reason we have appealed to the Supreme Court challenge his conviction and the disproportionality of the sentence “, we read in the text.

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For the signatories a “ awareness must be collective and must be egalitarian: incest and child abuse are not class crimes and we must stop believing that they only concern certain environments “.

“ We cannot support justice that overturns the blame and condemns a mother who acted as any parent would have the breath to do: Priscilla Majani is not the only one being punished simply for believing her daughter and wanting to protect her “, we can still read there. Please remember that, in the case of incest, 73% of complaints are closed without further actionhad alarmed Ciivise in 2022.