Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The French government will penalize clients of prostitution

Paris .- The French health minister, Roselyne Bachelot, advanced his intention of Parliament debated a bill to punish clients of prostitution. With the penalty will be treated first and foremost, to impress upon the men who turn to prostitution as this support trafficking in human beings, Bachelot said in an interview published Wednesday by Le Parisien.

" The minister insisted that "prostitution is never voluntary" and that about 85% of women who carry out the "international procurement networks," It concluded: "these women are prostitutes because they have no other choice" . The minister, who put Sweden as a role model for what could be done in France, recalled that there is a parliamentary mission has examined "very carefully" how the law in that country, and its conclusions, which should be made public today, "could lead to a bill, which in any case could not be voted or applied before 2012.

Recalling that in France the law and is "clearly abolitionist" of prostitution, said she is in favor of criminalizing the clients. "We must punish them," he said. Bachelot criticized the idea of re-authorization in France brothels, and to justify their position said the French parliamentarians who have worked on this issue made a visit to those in Catalonia (Spain) where they are legally recognized, namely on the Spanish border in La Junquera.

The Minister of Health explained that the mission left "horrified at what he saw. The women living there in appalling conditions. The first prostitutes are victims," he said.

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