INTERVIEW
After the dissemination of private sex videos on the Internet, the LREM candidate for mayor of Paris Benjamin Griveaux withdrew from the municipal race on February 14. The same day, Ovidie published a post on Liberation in which she explains that by withdrawing, "Griveaux sends a bad message". The director explains to Philippe Vandel's microphone on Friday that it was not for Benjamin Griveaux, victim of "porn revenge" according to Ovidie, to withdraw from the media space.
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"By withdrawing from the media space, we leave room for the aggressor, or the guilty person. And that is ultimately what happened," indignant Ovidie. Alexandra de Taddéo, who had received the videos from Benjamin Griveaux, and her companion Piotr Pavlenski, who claimed to have these videos broadcast, were charged and placed under judicial supervision on 18 February. And have occupied the media landscape since the start of the case. "A few days later, Alexandra de Taddeo found herself doing a much watched river interview on M6," recalls Ovidie.
"We don't attack the culprit enough"
"What poses my problem is that when I do interventions on 'revenge porn' in middle and high school, in most establishments, it is for the victim in general to leave, to leave the establishment because the situation is unmanageable, "notes the director. "We don't attack the culprit enough," she says.
According to Ovidie, the Griveaux case made him "realize that people did not know what" revenge porn "was or that the victim was the person who appeared in these images broadcast without consent. There was a victim reversal -guilty". She recalls that in France, "'revenge porn' is prohibited", and that one is "accomplice when one distributes the video and that one takes part in a form of harassment". Those responsible for 'revenge porn' can receive sentences of up to two years' imprisonment and a fine of 60,000 euros.