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Trial in Avignon for the rapes of dozens of men he suffered Giselle Pelico under the influence anxiolytics that her husband ordered her to revoke her will, and the fact that some accused They claim they didn’t know the woman he did not give his approval renewed the debate on consent in France definition this crime.

New French Minister of Justice Didier Migoannounced this Friday that he favors the integration of the concept agreement V definition of the crime of rapein which now it doesn’t appear openly in an interview with France Inter radio station.

Migo limited himself to answering “yes” when asked whether he agreed with the president’s position. Emmanuel Macronwhich in March expressed its intention to change the article of the Criminal Code on this crime to include “consent”.

This article currently qualifies rape How “any action sexual penetration of any type or any oral-genital act committed against another person or against the person of the performer by force, obligation, threat or surprise.”

Environmentalist Senator Melanie Vogel introduced the bill in February change it And add that a slogan would be a crime”without consent“and the precision that this consent cannot be considered valid when the person depressed to violence, obligations, threats or surprise, and that it may be withdrawn at any time.”

In an explanatory statement, Vogel noted that currently “the criminal definition of rape is not interpreted broadly enough” and that in some cases acquittals occur “because the crime is not sufficiently characterized,” therefore, in his opinion, need to change it.

The previous head of justice, Eric Dupont-Moretti, without even openly opposing this change, asked the Senate for prudence and deeper reflection, since in its current definition the crime already includes “implicitly” lack of consent.

“Let us be careful that this fight (against sexual violence), which unfortunately never ends, does not lead to something worse than what we have now, namely legislation who knows what it is rape and it suppresses it more severely than in other European countries.”

This problem also gave rise to controversy among feministsamong them is the Socialist senator Laurence Rossignol, who was minister of family affairs at the end of François Hollande’s mandate (2012-2017).

The current wording is “okay. Perhaps a definition could be added: “Rape is a relationship.” not agreed‘. It wouldn’t hurt,” Rossignol said at the beginning of the year.

This issue was also the subject of an information mission to National Assemblybut everything was paralyzed by early legislative elections on June 30 and July 7, which suspended parliament for four months, until next week.