The Senate has just adopted an amendment setting the age of consent at 13 years. Many celebrities have mobilized to demand that he be pushed back to 15 years by posting photos of them as a teenager.
On Thursday, the Senate unanimously adopted at first reading an amendment creating a new sexual crime against minors under 13. For Annick Billon, author of the text, it is about posing in the right "a new prohibition: that of any sexual relationship with a minor of 13 years", without asking the question of consent. This vote did not please many people, including celebrities involved in child protection.
"1992. I am 13 years old. I have a head to consent to a sexual relation? What is more, with an adult? No to the amendment of Annick Billon. Threshold of consent at 15 years and 18 years in case incest or disability ", Andréa Bescond tweeted next to her of a photo of her at 13. The actress and author of the play The Tickles was the victim of a pedophile accompanied his message with the hashtag "before 15 years no consent". This was quickly taken up by many personalities, who also shared photos of them as teenagers to denounce the refusal to legally set the age of consent before 15 years.
Laurence Boccolini, Enora Malagré and Helena Noguerra have thus shared photos of them at 13 years old. "I am 13 years old, I have a head to consent to a sexual relation?! […] Your duty is to protect the children", wrote Alexandra Lamy on Instagram by questioning the members of the Senate. "Let's protect childhood! Only with consent at age 15. And even after 15 years, when it's no, it's NO", reacted for his part Xavier de Moulins. Flavie Flament, a rape victim aged 13, also shared the hashtag and a photo of her, saying: "I was 13 years old. And I was raped by David Hamilton. Could I have consented? # Before15YearsNotConsent".
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