Where are the legal proceedings in French Bukkake and Jacquie and Michel affairs? – release

Emilie, Loubna, Noëlie, Mélanie, Niya, Amélie (1)… Fifteen women, fifteen business victims French Bukkake And Jacquie and Micheltestify in a collective work, Under our eyes (Threshold), which appears on Friday April 11. The book, a collection freezing sexual violence suffered as part of filming of pornographic films and their consequences, finally gives them a voice.

If the Jacquie and Michel affair is still under investigation (read box below), The French Bukkake affair must be trusted in the coming months. 42 women were formed civil party and 16 men, producers and actors, are indicted for acts of aggravated rape, complicity in rapes, aggravated pimps, deals with human beings for rape purposes, dissemination of rape images. Among them, Pascal O., at the head of the platform, Julien D. in charge of the « folding » of the victims, or Mathieu L. and Célian V., both actors in these films and directors.

These young women, for some already victims of sexual or pedocriminal violence, were targeted in moments of great vulnerability – they were single mothers, without resources or without family. They were approached according to an identical operating mode: creation by one of the accused, Julien D., of a female avatar, Axelle Vercoutre; collection of their secrets; Proposed preliminary price sexual relations, leading to a first rape, without given money; Then, once the victim psychologically broken, proposal to shoot pornographic film, with the promise that the videos would not be broadcast in France, and in a limited circle; Promise to respect their refusal of certain practices, such as sodomy or facial ejaculation.

The « filming » were in reality, according to what the victims describe, of rape filmed for hours, in meeting, with insults, blows, extreme sexual practices, until sometimes making them bleed and choke – « I’m going to die », said one of them, under the sneers of the participants. Among the victims, 32 thus formed, on March 21, an appeal in cassation after their request to take into account several aggravating circumstances, including those « Act of torture and barbarism », of « racism » and « Sexism » was rejected on appeal in February.

For the first aggravating circumstance, the Paris Court of Appeal considered that the victims had « Accomplished an initial voluntary approach to participate in filming », that sexual acts could be « painful », but that « Suffering could not be considered exceptionally acute and prolonged ». Certain « filming » could last twenty-four hours, according to testimonies. Despite the tears, the pleas, the bleeding visible on the videos, the investigating chamber considered that there was no « Distributedly inflicted separate injury ». As for racist and sexist insults – « Vacux-Touts », « Massacre it, La Beurette »-, They were not retained on the grounds that the acts committed on these women participate « The realization of works of the mind ».

« These aggravating circumstances would have led to sentences incurred over twenty years of criminal imprisonment, which is the line of demarcation between the Assize Court, with popular jury, and the Departmental Criminal Court, run by professional magistrates. This allows justice to save money and go faster ”, GRINCE LORRAINE Questiaux, the lawyer who represents three civil parties and three associations (dare feminism, the nest movement, cheeky) in the French Bukkake affair. While the judgment of the Court of Cassation will be rendered before May 17 on these qualifications, the lawyer presages a period of at least six months before the opening of the debates in court.

« We are both in a trial of extreme violence against women, but also at the heart of the culture of rape », Comments Lorraine Questiaux, who wishes to arouse awareness of the responsibility of men in the porn industry, whether actors or consumers: « These videos stage the torture of women, on which men laugh and masturbate. »

(1) The first names have been modified.