The #MeToo movement is celebrating its fifth anniversary.

On this occasion, feminist activists on Tuesday accused the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, of not having opened the "site of the fight against impunity" in terms of sexual violence.

"In 2020, there were 732 convictions for rape while each year the "victimization" surveys tell us that there are 94,000 adult women victims of rape or attempted rape", declared the president of the Foundation of Women Anne-Cécile Mailfert, during a press conference.

Victimization surveys are statistical surveys of a sample of the population, the questions of which concern the crimes and misdemeanors of which the persons questioned have been victims.

"The most unpunished crime in France"

"Rape is the most unpunished crime in France and justice is unable to do justice to women," she said.

She called into question "the incapacity of justice and especially the lack of will, the brakes of the current Minister of Justice who does not wish to open the site of the fight against impunity".

"Before the rankings [sans suite], we first had a lot of refusal of complaints", explained Emmanuelle Piet, president of the Feminist Collective against Rape (CFCV).

“We have minimal investigations with classification of the prosecutor on the phone.

It is enough for the policeman to say: "it's a story of peeing, it's not a good deal", we classify on the phone, without reason, without informing the person, "she castigated.

The “liar presumption”

“The presumption of innocence, yes, but we want something other than the presumption of a liar.

We want a presumption of credibility", she added, believing that "when we see the slowness of justice in rape cases and the speed with which cases of slanderous denunciation are processed, we say to ourselves that it is there are two weights, two measures”.

On average, it takes “77 months”, or more than 6 years, for a case to reach court, according to Anne-Cécile Mailfert.

The activists wanted these cases of rape and sexual assault to be handled by “trained and specialized” police officers and magistrates.

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