Affaire Barella : analyse de la culture du viol et de l'impunité systémique dans le meurtre de Lyhanna
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This article is an opinion piece analyzing the case of Jérôme Barella, who raped and murdered 11-year-old Lyhanna, and the systemic impunity he enjoyed despite prior offenses. The authors argue that rapists are not born but made, and that society's culture of rape — reinforced by the porn industry, patriarchal structures, and institutional failures — must be dismantled. The piece calls for a collective uprising against sexual violence and the privileges that protect perpetrators.
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· 3 pulledLe viol puis le meurtre de Lyhanna, 11 ans, mais peut-être plus encore l'impunité dont a pu bénéficier Jérôme Barella, son tortionnaire - connu par la justice pour des faits du même ordre - suscitent un légitime sursaut de révolte populaire
La conscience collective d'être toutes et tous concernés par les violences sexuelles masculines se propage et, à l'heure où il est si difficile de faire commun, ce réveil, ce « non » à la barbarie patriarcale est une lueur d'espoir
La lutte contre la culture du viol est « vitale » et doit s'attaquer, notamment, à l'industrie pornographique « dont le modèle économique repose exclusivement sur la subversion des interdits et la haine des dominés »
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