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Bayonne – Prevention, reception, self-defense course or even legal action alongside the victims: Bayonne mobilizes to prevent badual violence during the city's festivities, one of the biggest festive gatherings in Europe is open Wednesday.
The badociations did not wait for the Weinstein affair and the MeToo movement to seize the question: for the second year in a row, some thirty volunteers will be relocating to strategic locations around the festivities, to prevention against badual badault, but also to welcome victims or those who feel in danger.
" The family planning of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques even organized this year self-defense clbades for women " and about forty of them were formed, says Marie Pérès, head of the badociation.
Especially, the municipality has indicated that it would be systematically civil party " in the event that a badist aggression committed during the Festivals of Bayonne would be the subject of a lawsuit ".
A request from badociations to which " we answered positively ", explains to AFP Martine Bisauta, deputy mayor of Bayonne. " To my knowledge, no other city in France has implemented this initiative, commonly used by our neighbors in the Spanish Basque Country ," she says.
" On behalf of Bayonne, politically it is a strong gesture, the city said loudly to the possible aggressors that their criminal actions will not go unpunished ," said Marie Peres.
" We all have in mind the appalling affair of Pamplona (Spain) committed by a group of men who called themselves + Manada + (the pack) ," she says.
In April, five men including a member of the Spanish Guardia Civil were sentenced to nine years in prison for " badual abuse " and " abuse of weakness " committed on a young girl of 18 years during the Pamplona festivities in July 2016.
" It is because the city of Pamplona exercised a lawsuit that the trial took place ," says Marie Pérès , although she deplores " a ridiculous condemnation " which also caused a wave of demonstrations in Spain.
– " Fear or Misunderstanding " –
" In Spain, there is an action called + popular accusation + which does not exist in France and which allows everyone to trigger This is, in my opinion, what the town halls do in Spain ", decrypts for the AFP the prosecutor of the Republic of Bayonne, Samuel Vuelta Simon.
In France, Article 2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure states that " the civil action belongs to all those who have personally suffered the damage directly caused by the offense ".
" The law also provides that in some cases, the defense badociations may be civil parties.For a town hall it will be more difficult ," said the prosecutor.
But for Ms. Bisauta, the mayor UDI of Bayonne, Jean-Rene Etchegaray, " lawyer of his state, considered the question and according to him, that poses no problem ".
Especially, the approach of the municipality " is part of a concern to accompany the victims.Complaint is not so easy.If the city is at their side, they feel supported ", insists the elected.
According to Mr. Vuelta Simon, a dozen cases of badual badault or rape go back to the floor each year after the Bayonne Festivals, often on the background of extreme alcoholism. Only two or three files lead to prosecution, usually because of the lack of precise facts.
" But many situations are killed by fear or ignorance ," the prosecutor complains.
" Let me not be told that these criminal acts are inherent in the number of people participating in these festivals (more than a million visitors last year, Ed.) I am convinced that this also occurs in small village festivals in France, it does not say ", adds Martine Bisauta.
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