PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday the law had to change to better protect victims of child sexual abuse.
“Today shame is switching sides” from victims to perpetrators, Macron said in a video posted to Twitter, welcoming the fact that “people feel free to speak everywhere in France.”
The flood of testimony under the social media hashtag #Metooinceste followed the early January publication of a book, “La familia grande,” by Camille Kouchner.
In it she accused her step-father, prominent political commentator Olivier Duhamel, of having abused her twin brother.
Macron did not directly address that case.
“We are here. We’re listening to you. We believe you. And you will never be alone again,” he said in a Twitter video.
And he added: “We have to adapt our laws to better protect child victims of incest and sexual violence.” (AFP)
