The national police have been heavily criticized on Twitter after the publication of a prevention campaign against "revenge porn".

Many Internet users have denounced a guilt-inducing campaign against women.

The tweet was eventually deleted and the institution pleaded "awkwardness".

The national police "chose" on Saturday to delete one of its tweets, originally intended to warn young people of the danger of sharing naked photos on social networks, because of an outbreak of controversy on the social network.

On Saturday, on his Twitter account, the national police posted a drawing showing two teenagers, phone in hand, exchanging a nude photo, with the following text: "He has received YOUR NUDE, your friends, your parents, your comrades ... ".

And a warning: "Sending a nude means accepting the risk of seeing this shared photo".

Mixed reactions

This tweet immediately aroused many comments, some seeing in it a desire of the police to "blame the victims", like feminist activist Caroline de Haas when others considered "the turn awkward but not illegitimate ".

Asked by AFP, the national police replied: "We never convey the idea that the victims could be responsible for the situation they are undergoing".

The @PoliceNationale deleted his tweet.



Bravo to all those who alerted.

@ NousToutesOrgpic.twitter.com / sreSbLnZyx

- Caroline De Haas (@carolinedehaas) March 6, 2021

The wording, catastrophic, should not make us forget that one should never send photos of oneself that one would not want to see shared.



Saying that is not accusing the victim (woman or man), it is reminiscent of the Internet. # Sextingpic.twitter.com / PJglKNLeUT

- Raphael Grably (@GrablyR) March 6, 2021

"This tweet was therefore a mistake that we have chosen to correct by deleting it".

This publication was to be part of a series devoted to the dangers of sharing such photos, which ended with the penalties for criminal and / or malicious use.

"The national police force, it was also argued, acts to identify and confuse the perpetrators of the offenses. It is also mobilized in preventive actions which are aimed at as many as possible".