Under a general reference of “sexual harassment”, three definitions coexist in French law, identical in the public and the private sphere, to which is added the penalty of sexual violence determined by law. To “sexual harassment” were added more recently “repeatedly sexist words, behaviors or connotations”, as well as, excluding repetition, an action “with the real or apparent goal of obtaining a sexual act”, assimilated to sexual harassment . Finally, under discrimination, all action is targeted to “sexual connotation” which has the object or effect of undermining a person’s dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.
Acts and actions are surrounded, defined, sanctioned at different levels and multiple ways. But the first sanction is often media. It may be difficult, when “sexist violence” or “sexual violence” are mentioned, to understand what is exactly accused, while the public immediately admits the amalgam. Research so much proof – unless admission – that qualification is all the more complex as the accusation is enough to trigger the index in the activity sphere of the targeted person. If it is a known person, the public launch of mediated information, whether on networks or in the general public, is admitted as proof. In all cases, advertising ruins not only the reputation of the person questioned, but also that of the structure which has not been able to prevent these behaviors.
Once the information has been published, the structure is just as much under the projectors of the news as the person questioned. Companies have implemented internal survey processes sometimes anticipating legal obligations. The public sector has also published a guide on processes. It is not also surprising that a political party, in the form of an association or another structure, sets up an investigation procedure in the common goal of looking for the truth.
Insurance of impartiality
Interesting is the silence imposed on the person concerned while the “cell” of the party or the political party makes conclusions following an investigation accompanied by a “withdrawal”, suspension of activity As there are in the private sector by layoff or simple dismissal, depending on the case. Conservatory measures are adapted to the severity of the facts, to the need to put an end to rumors that are spread from unconcetic declarations, but also to the protection of the alert launcher and the person questioned.
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