Prostitution: demonstration in Paris for the repeal of the law penalizing the custome
External Link/Members OnlyThe most striking measure of the 2016 law concerns clients of prostitutes who risk a fine of 1,500 euros, or 3,750 euros in case of recidivism.
Some 200 people, including dozens of prostitutes, demonstrated Saturday in Paris to request the repeal of the law penalizing customers voted two years ago .
"We demand the repeal of the law" and "the common law: sex work is legal, I declare my taxes, I have the right to offer my services and people have the right to buy them," said Christine, 53 years old "but 43 for customers".
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Demonstration of April 14, 2018 in Paris. / AFP / CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT
"Stop our attackers, not our customers"
Protesters, sex workers and sympathizers gathered at the Place Pigalle, a historic district of Parisian prostitution, at the urging of the Sex Worker's Union (Strass). They were 150 according to the police prefecture.
On banners brandished, we could read "Whores - trans - migrant, free disposal of our lives" or "Stop our attackers, not our customers. Among the slogans: "We want customers, become delinquents! "
The most striking measure of the law that came into force on April 13, 2016 concerns clients of prostitutes who face a fine of € 1,500 or even € 3,750 in the event of a repeat offense.
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Rest "bad customers"
According to a survey published Thursday and coordinated by Doctors of the World with more than 600 prostitutes, sex workers judge "harmful" this law and impute to them a fall in their incomes and an increase of the violence of which they can be victims.
The assaults have become "more frequent", "the whores are belittled", it remains "bad customers, those who bargain prices or want unprotected reports," launched in the gallery Françoise Gil, president of "Friends of the bus women ".
"95% of the planet penalizes the tap, the supply, the demand or both, and yet it has not disappeared," argued "Mylène Juste" (a pseudo), general secretary of Strass, "in the street for 16 years ", masked face and pins" I'm a fucking feminist ".