Reshuffle: the new CIIVISE meeting postponed

Another signal that struggles to reassure the future of CIIVISE, the independent commission on incest and sexual violence against minors.

This Monday, January 15, the brand new meeting of the organization would have been held around its new president, the founder of the Colosse aux pieds d’église association, Sébastien Boueilh. While twelve members of CIIVISE resigned in December to protest the ouster of its two co-presidents, juvenile judge Édouard Durand and the association’s former director Nathalie Mathieu, this new meeting was supposed to announce its new constitution.

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No postponement date set

According to Sébastien Boueilh, guest of French culture Friday 12 January, this postponement is due to the recent ministerial reshuffle, since CIIVISE is administratively linked to the Secretariat of State for Children. The new president declared it “Excuse me” From “Postponement indefinitely” of the first meeting of the new CIIVISE version.

“This postponement risks not calming the media storm”, which Sébastien Boueilh claims to have been a victim of since he took office. He added that the new Commission is “already constituted despite twelve resignations of the twenty expert members who should have been appointed on Monday, as well as twenty alternates”.

This postponement is all the more worrying as until now CIIVISE was part of the Secretariat of State for Children. However, the latter was not maintained in the new government of Gabriel Attal.

Concern about the new doctrine

On France Culture, Sébastien Boueilh also clarified the priorities of the new CIIVISE, viz “create a national network to support victims and propose a more global approach that takes into account in particular male victims, even if on the margins”. Not enough to reassure those who have resigned, who in an article published on Thursday 4 January a Publicationthey have already shared theirs ” worry “ regarding the change in doctrine initiated by the new presidency of the Commission.

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Sébastien Boueilh, who has not yet signed his mission letter, also confirmed the expansion of CIIVISE’s missions with the opening of its field of action “Cyber-pedo crime, child prostitution, violence between minors, sexual violence against minors in care and victims of disabilities”.