Stupefaction in indignation in Ivory Coast.

Monday, on the New Ivorian channel (NCI, private), host Yves de M'Bella hosts a program supposed to denounce rape.

To start badly, he receives as a guest a man presented as an "ex-rapist".

During the show, the alleged criminal is asked to explain how he assaulted his victims.

In order to better illustrate his remarks, the host puts at his disposal a mannequin that he helps him to lay down on the ground while laughing.

He then encourages him to explain in great detail how he went about abusing his victim.

At the end of his "demonstration", the alleged ex-rapist is invited by Yves de M'Bella to give his "advice" to a woman so as not to be raped.

Once completed, the show called "La Télé ici vacances" aroused outraged reactions on social networks.

“Tell me that I'm dreaming,” writes Priss'K, an Ivorian artist, on Facebook.

“It is disgusting, inadmissible, disrespectful, especially towards women.

Rape is so degrading, dehumanizing for the victim ”.

The suspended facilitator

Launched shortly after the broadcast of the program, a petition signed Tuesday at midday by 30,000 people, addressed to the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication, to the Ministries of Communication and Youth, asks that the program be " outright canceled and (that) the team that presents it with Yves de M'Bella at its head be sanctioned ”. At a time of "the fight against violence against women", the text deplores that "television, whose role is to educate, becomes an accomplice (...) by giving a voice to a rapist".

The leadership of the NCI presented its "sincere apologies" on Tuesday. She expressed in a statement her "attachment to respect for human rights and in particular those of women", her "deep regrets" and her "solidarity with women victims of violence and abuse of all kinds". "As a precautionary measure (...) we canceled all the reruns of this episode of" TV from here on vacation "and we suspended the host", indicates the text. "We humbly assume full responsibility for this serious and regrettable fault from which we will draw all the consequences".

In a survey of 5,556 people and published in June, the Ivorian NGO Citizens for the Promotion and Defense of the Rights of Children, Women and Minorities (CPDEFM), identified in two years in the city of Abidjan 416 feminicides. , 2,000 cases of violence against women, including 1,290 cases of marriage of girls under 18 and 1,121 rapes.

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