MP Marie-Charlotte Garin came to the BFM TV set on January 22 to present her proposed law which aims to introduce the notion of consent into the definition of rape.
2025, a journalist, on television, to whom it is still necessary to explain how consent applies… Fortunately, some still find the patience necessary to do it, like Marie-Charlotte Garin.
This ddeputy ecologist from Lyon came to the BFM TV set on January 22 to present her proposed law. With Véronique Riotton, Renaissance deputy for Haute-Savoiethey campaign for introduce the notion of consent into the definition of rape. And when we see the questions of Bastien Bocquel, the BFM TV journalist who questions him that day, we say to ourselves that it is urgent.
The consent manual
“But non-consent, must it be oral? Written? When it’s not yes, it’s no? How should we understand it?”asks the journalist to Marie-Charlotte Garin. Does the journalist really need the manual to understand how consent applies? Marie-Charlotte Garin responds to him by pointing out that these questions are ultimately very French. “It’s interesting because we see that it creates a debateshe said. But among our Belgian colleagues, there was none at all because ultimately, consent, we mobilize it on a daily basis.”
To illustrate her point, the MP gives her a simple example: borrow a pen….
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