one hundred personalities demand a comprehensive law on sexual violence in a forum

The signatories – including Isabelle Adjani, Emmanuelle Béart, Juliette Binoche, Muriel Robin, Christine Angot – consider in particular “unacceptable” that the rate of dismissal of complaints for sexual violence “has reached the delusional rate of 94% in 2022” .

“Who is really listening to us?” : seven years after the launch of the #Metoo movement, one hundred personalities, including many actresses, are demanding, in a petition published Tuesday May 14 in The worlda comprehensive law against sexual violence.

“There are 100 of us, but in reality there are hundreds of thousands of us,” write the signatories of this petition initiated by The Women’s Foundation, #Metoomedia and actress Anna Mouglalis. “Our #Metoo speeches revealed a reality shrouded in denial: sexist and sexual violence is systemic, not exceptional. However, one case seems to chase another, who is really listening to us?”.

Among the signatories are the actresses Isabelle Adjani, Charlotte Arnould, Emmanuelle Béart, Juliette Binoche, Emma de Caunes, Judith Godrèche, Isild Le Besco, Muriel Robin, the authors Leila Slimani, Christine Angot, Vanessa Springora and the actor Philippe Torreton.

“For seven years, we have been speaking for ourselves and for all the women, men and children who cannot do so,” is it written in this “tribunal of 147”. “We are not numbers: women and men from all professional backgrounds, we come together to demand a comprehensive law against sexual and gender-based violence, ambitious and equipped with resources. Because despite the courage of the victims, there is impunity who grows.“

“Clarifying the definition of rape and consent”

They judge in particular “unacceptable” that the rate of dismissal of complaints for sexual violence “reached the crazy rate of 94% in 2022” and warn that they no longer accept “announcement effects without follow-up”.

“Adding just the word consent to the law will not make up for France’s abysmal delay in this area”believe the signatories, in reference to the commitment made in March by Emmanuel Macron.

Everyone asks “a comprehensive law which will clarify, among other things, the definition of rape and consent, introduce that of incest, judge serial rapists for all known rapes, and extend protection orders to rape victims , to facilitate the collection of evidence, to create specialized brigades, to prohibit investigations into the sexual past of victims.

This law must also allow “immediate and free access to psycho-traumatology care, to finally provide the financial means for this public policy and the associations which implement it”, they add.