What future for CIIVISE? While Aurore Bergé assured last Sunday that CIIVISE would do so ” to continue “ Despite the departure of the new presidency, the future of the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence against Children remains uncertain, as recent weeks have profoundly shaken its foundations. After the disputed ouster of its president Édouard Durand and the fear expressed by its members of a “change of doctrine” following the appointment of Sébastien Boueilh as leader, a complaint was filed against Vice President Caroline Rey-Salmon for sexual assault.
An appeal to continue the work started three years ago
But the members of the first CIIVISE are ready to continue the work undertaken since the creation of the body in 2021, and which has made it possible to collect more than 30,000 testimonies from victims of incest and sexual violence during childhood.
In a letter addressed to Sarah El Hairy, newly appointed Minister for Children, thirteen former members say they want it “participate in the implementation” of 82 recommendations made in a report presented last November. “Who better than CIIVISE 1, made up of victims and recognized professionals, can continue this work, which must not remain a dead letter? “, they ask. The thirteen signatories of the letter, including psychiatrist Muriel Salmona, peer support worker for incest victims Angélique Mouly and feminist activist Ernestine Ronai to re-establish the commission’s “doctrine”: in “End with impunity for attackers”, ” believe “ AND ” to protect “ the victims.
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Emmanuel Macron must “live up to it”
This letter addressed to the Minister delegate for children is not the first addressed to the government. Remembering that it is urgent to once again mobilize resources to fight incest and sexual violence against children, five community activists, also former members of CIIVISE 1, turn to Emmanuel Macron. “It is never too late, Mr President of the Republic, to continue what you yourself started in 2021”, they write in the letter, also published in The Parisian.
Signed by Laurent Boyer, president of the Les Papillons association, by the co-founder of Mouv’Enfants Arnaud Gallais, by Nathalie Moreau, president of Arevi (Association for action, research and exchanges between victims of incest), by the founder and president of SOS Inceste Eva Thomas, as well as Angélique Mouly, the letter asks a “collective repair” after the CIIVISE 2 fiasco and the start of“a culture of child protection capable of countering the culture of denial”. “We remain at your disposal to find a positive solution to this crisis that CIIVISE is going through. »
In a sign that the fate of CIIVISE is being examined beyond child protection actors, six opposition deputies also sent, including Marie-Charlotte Harin (EELV), Elsa Faucillon (PCF), Fatiha Keloua-Hachi ( PS) and Léo Walter (LFI) a letter to Sarah El-Haïry, asking her to reconstitute the old CIIVISE team and to “translate all CIIVISE recommendations into law”.
For the moment, neither Sarah El Hairy nor Emmanuel Macron have responded to these requests.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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