This is a promise which should reassure associations which currently fear for the sustainability of the Civic. The commission in particular responsible for fighting incest should continue to exist with expanded missions, assured this Sunday the Secretary of State for Children.
“I hope that the work of the Civil Society will continue, with a new road map,” declared Secretary of State, Charlotte Caubel, in an interview with JDD.
Nearly 30,000 testimonies collected
Chaired by children’s judge Edouard Durand and association manager Nathalie Mathieu, Ciivise was created in March 2021, in the wake of the shock wave caused by the book the Great Family by Camille Kouchner, accusing her father-in-law, political scientist Olivier Duhamel, of raping his twin brother.
In the space of two years, the commission collected nearly 30,000 testimonies and submitted a report to the government with 82 recommendations to fight against this “mass crime” which, according to it, affects 160,000 children each year. But the executive has until now maintained vagueness about the future of this commission, to the great concern of the associations who want it to continue its work.
The prostitution of minors worries
According to Charlotte Caubel, the Ciivise aims to continue to exist but by broadening its missions, notably beyond the sole question of incest. “We must now address other essential subjects in my opinion: the impact of online child crime on real child crime, access to pornography and therefore the sexuality education of our children”, lists- she said. “There is also the prostitution of minors, which is becoming a huge subject. » On Monday, the government must announce a 22-part plan against violence against children. However, it will not be limited to sexual violence.
Charlotte Caubel, on the other hand, does not give any indication on the fate of judge Durand, defended by a number of associations but whose future at the head of the Ciivise seems fragile. Its media aura, the repeated questioning of the dysfunctions of the judicial treatment of sexual violence and its independence annoy, according to observers.