While an incest case has just broken out, involving political scientist Olivier Duhamel, the issue of legal action in cases of sexual violence is once again on the table.
At the microphone of Europe 1 on Saturday, the environmentalist politician Sandrine Rousseau ruled that the limitation period should be extended to the maximum.
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This week broke a family scandal delivered to the public through Camille Kouchner's book.
In
La Famille grande
, she denounces the incest of which her brother was a victim at the hands of her stepfather, Olivier Duhamel.
An environmental politician, Sandrine Rousseau created the association "Parler" to support victims of sexual violence.
Invited from Europe 1 on Saturday, she pleaded to remove the limitation period: "Justice must adapt [...] it is necessary to include in the law the imprescriptibility of sexual crimes, especially on minors."
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"The time of justice is not that of the victims"
Sandrine Rousseau notes that no case of sexual violence involving a known personality has so far resulted in a conviction.
"It shows the omerta organized around the abuser so that those who know and suffer cannot speak."
She also says that victims need to go through a personal journey before they can consider prosecution.
However, according to her, this time is not that of justice.
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The current limitation period is 30 years, on the grounds that after this time, evidence is scarce.
"But the scale of these crimes and the consequences that it has on the lives of the people who are victims of them requires that we review this statute of limitations and that we lengthen it as much as possible," she insists .
Taking as an example the actions of Olivier Duhamel which have just been revealed, she believes that it would be possible to gather the necessary evidence and testimony.
"We could very well judge a case like this."