The black streak continues for CIIVISE. Less than two months after the appointment by the Minister delegate for Children, Youth and Family Sarah El Hairy, the new presidency of the independent commission on incest and sexual violence against minors is once again in torment.
In the evening of Thursday 23 May, the former Eure MP Bruno Questal was forced to leave the collegiate presidency of CIIVISE, which he shared with the child psychiatrist Thierry Baudet, the president of the France Victimes federation Maryse le Men Régnier and the president of Face à l’inceste Solène Podevin Favre association.
This decision follows the publication, in The Eure courier, an article on the first degree trial of a man accused of sexual violence against his teenage daughter, then sentenced to ten months of suspended prison. The latter was defended by Bruno Questal, who declared during the hearing:
“I agreed to defend him because I don’t know. It is unclear what exactly happened. What is certain is that he is hurt and suffering and that he is very sorry not to see his children. If he made a mistake, he was sleeping with his daughter. »
Bruno Questol went even further, stating in an interview Courier dell’Eure which had “inner conviction” that client of his, that him “known for a long time”, “He wasn’t guilty”. “He asked me before I was at Civic. One of the rules of the legal profession is that when you undertake to defend someone, you go all the way. »
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CIIVISE and the associations dissociate themselves
Unacceptable comments, for the former exponents of CIIVISE, but also for the associations that defend the rights of victims of sexual violence. On X, the children’s rights activist Arnaud Gallais, resigning member of CIIVISE, denounced “Scandalous remarks”.
The associations Face à l'incest, l'Enfant Bleu also dissociated themselves from the comments of the former Eure deputy, himself a victim of incest at the age of 11, recalling that they would always position themselves on the side of the victims.
L'Enfant Bleu also announced that it will withdraw from the Commission against incest and sexual violence against children.
Faced with the anger provoked by such comments, Bruno Questal ended up announcing his resignation from CIIVISE on Thursday evening, before deleting his message. The body subsequently published a press release announcing Bruno Questal's departure from its presidency and announcing that he would continue his work "guided by the best interests of the child".
But will CIIVISE really be able to calmly carry out its mission, which is to fight against sexual violence against children? Already shaken by the dismissal of its first presidency, including juvenile judge Édouard Durand, at the end of 2023, the commission had to endure in February the cascading resignations of its two new presidents, Sébastien Boueilh, co-founder of Clay's Colosse aux foots association and pediatrician and forensic pathologist Caroline Rey-Salmon. The latter has in the meantime been the subject of a complaint for sexual violence.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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