If he will not attend the 51st edition of the Angoulême Comic Strip Festival (which has just opened to the public), Bastien Vivès still risks having his ears ringing: while part of his work is already the subject of an investigation “for dissemination of child pornography images”, here he is, in fact, once again under the spotlight of justice.
Albums attacked but still available
Release in fact tells us that Anne Clerc, the general delegate of the association Facing incest, filed a complaint on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, aimed at “denouncing the accessibility and exposure of Bastien Vivès’ content to minors, when the previous complaints only called for a decision on the legality of this content.” The process does not only concern the author. The association already announced, January 19 on its website, also file a complaint against Glénat editions and the Requins Marteaux association. It is now done.
For the record, Bastien Vivès and his publishers have been the subject, since January 2023, of an investigation opened after the association’s complaint Children’s Foundation concerning three comic strips by the author (“Petit Paul”, “The Mental Discharge” and “The Melons of Anger”).
The defense denounces a “non-event”
There is nothing innocent about the timing, according to Ms. Clerc’s own admission, who recalls that “one year after the first complaints (filed in December 2022), nothing has changed, no one has had to respond of the representation of this sexual violence against children”.
Bastien Vivès’ lawyer believes, still in Libération, that the new complaint filed by Face à l’inceste is a “non-event”. He also recalls that the investigation against his client is continuing.
To be completely complete, let us recall that on Monday January 29, 2024, five people will be judged, during a hearing scheduled in the 30th criminal chamber of the Paris court, for having uttered “insults and death threats” against from the designer at the end of 2022.