
It is now nearly acted: the notion of non-consent, places the entrance of the stage by the #MeToo motion, ought to quickly enter the penal code, within the articles defining sexual assault and rape. After the deputies, the senators in flip adopted on Wednesday, June 18, unanimously regardless of some abstentions, the invoice initially carried by the deputies Marie-Charlotte Garin (Les Ecologists, Rhône) and Véronique Riotton (Renaissance, Haute-Savoie).
The transpartisan textual content, supported by the federal government, plans to redefine sexual assault, and amongst them rape, as “Any sexual act not granted on the person of others or on the person of the author”specifying that“There is no consent if the sexual act is committed with violence, constraint, threat or surprise”the 4 modalities already supplied for by legislation. The new writing defines consent to a sexual exercise, now presumed in legislation, as having to be “Free and enlightened, specific, prior and revocable”. He “Cannot be deducted from the only silence or the only lack of reaction from the victim”.
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