Cécile Cée will not support demonstrations against sexual violence against children

On Monday, as demonstrations against sexual violence inflicted on children resume across France to "put pressure on the government," Cécile Cée, a left-wing feminist and anti-racist activist, will refrain from calling on her 73,000 followers to participate. That would amount to supporting the comprehensive law ("loi intégrale"), which has become the main demand. On June 8, the author of *Ce que Cécile sait, journal d’une sortie de l’inceste* (Marabout, 2024), had taken part in the Parisian gathering organized by feminist and child-rights collectives following the discovery of Lyhanna's body. But she had come away disappointed... On the one hand, she wrote, "there were calls for the comprehensive law against sexual violence and the implementation of the 82 recommendations of the Ciivise," while on the other "people were chanting 'life imprisonment for pedos!'". Over the days, the activist clarified her position: ultimately, the comprehensive law—which reaches the National Assembly this Monday in a special committee—seemed harmful to her in its French version. Too focused on law and order, marked by an "institutional" feminism, too close to the bourgeois and white state, which "has ignored the cumulative vulnerabilities of racialized, trans, or LGBTQI people," explains to Le Figaro Inès, an activist from the influential collective Nous Toutes, who also does not want it in this form.