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image captionProminent academic Olivier Duhamel resigned in January after he was accused of abusing his stepson
French MPs have voted to back a new law that would set the age of consent at 15 and prohibit sex with relatives aged under 18.
It is expected to pass in the Senate and will give France an age of consent for sexual relations for the first time.
It comes after a series of sexual abuse scandals that shook the country.
Supporters say it will make it easier to prosecute both historical and recent cases of sexual abuse.
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By Lucy Williamson
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image captionProtest at Sciences Po Strasbourg: The slogans read: We believe you and Silent institution = complicit institution
Anna Toumazoff chose a powerful hashtag to highlight sexual abuse at France s top political science college. Sciences Po - the training ground for the country s presidents, politicians and administrators - became #SciencesPorcs (Science Pigs). This story is very French, Anna told me. Because it s about great schools; it s about rape culture; it s about the elegance of being silent - that s very French.
Since then, the social media activist has received more than 400 messages from current and former students of Sciences Po. They describe sexual assaults and rapes, mostly by fellow students, that they say were not taken seriously by the college.
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#MeTooIncest: France Lifts The Lid on Incest as Detailed in Camille Kouchner s Book Published January 27th, 2021 - 07:26 GMT
In La Familia Grande , a book that was published on Thursday, Camille Kouchner accuses her stepfather, Olivier Duhamel, of having sexually abused her twin brother when they were teenagers. (Twitter)
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In La Familia Grande , a book that was published on Thursday, Camille Kouchner accuses her stepfather, Olivier Duhamel, of having sexually abused her twin brother when they were teenagers.
Decades of silence come to an end as France comes to term with a pervasive culture of incest that has affected one in ten people.