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France’s Child-Incest Commission Reels as Two Top Leaders Resign

The health minister proposes an independent support mission to keep work going following accusations that victims’ voices are being sidelined.

La présidente de l'association Face à l'inceste Solène Podevin Favre le 19 mars 2025 à Paris pour une audition parlementaire de la Ciivise
La ministre de la Santé Stéphanie Rist au Sénat le 20 janvier 2026 à Paris
Lancement de la nouvelle Commission sur les violences sexuelles faites aux enfants (Ciivise) le 5 février 2024 à Paris

Overview

  • Psychiatrist Thierry Baubet resigned on Wednesday, citing disagreements over decisions and how the commission operates.
  • On Thursday, Solène Podevin Favre announced her departure and Face à l’Inceste’s walkout, denouncing a deleterious climate and the silencing of victims.
  • The exits leave magistrate Maryse Le Men Regnier as the only remaining member of the three-person leadership.
  • Health Minister Stéphanie Rist said she has taken note of the resignations and called for an independent support mission to ensure continuity and overhaul methods and internal organization.
  • Divisions center on key legal proposals such as making sexual crimes against minors imprescriptible, with a recent plenary reportedly rejecting an ASE working group opinion, and Face à l’Inceste says the body lacks resources and will now lobby parliamentarians for reforms.