Ms Beryl Brown, the 2016 jury award winner and the public award winner for the best speech for the defence, is the guest of the meeting program which is presented by Juliette Loiseau on Radio Notre-Dame. She recalls her speech for the Scelles Foundation Awards and the major importance of the denunciation of the violent sexual exploitation: “In order to understand the prostitution phenomenon, you have to understand how young women and young men ended up there; vulnerability is one main decisive factor…”.
Beryl Brown pleading for the Scelles Foundation Awards
Last June 24th, The 2016 Scelles Foundation Awards giving ceremony took place in the solemn Paris Bar library, in the presence of the candidates, the professional jury, the partners and the public who were welcome by Ms Dominique Attias, the vice-leader of the barristers.
Once more, the Fondation Scelles Awards represent an achievement resulting from a collective action led by young people, university and high school students, lawyers, journalists, judges, photographers who appropriated this complex and often unknown issue, by key figures from the juridical, media and political spheres, who paid attention to these young people’s creations and by associative and educational managers who worked at transmitting values in relation with committing oneself and altruism.
It is in his jurisdiction and for the first time that a client was arrested on May 1st 2016. The Fontainebleau prosecutor, Guillaume Lascaux, has reinforced the control of clients on his territory since that date.
How come you took these decisions?
I have been a prosecutor here since January 2016. I was quickly led to admit that, wherever in the forest a car can park, a woman is waiting; she is dropped in the morning and picked up in the evening. At the end of 2015, 80 prostituted persons were counted in Fontainebleau jurisdiction. I also heard the demand of all the partners I met (Prefecture, gendarmerie, local representatives…). Prostitution is jointly felt like a human drama, a « stain » on Fontainebleau image and an environmental problem.
Les premiers Prix qui récompensent
la jeunesse engagée contre l'exploitation des plus vulnérables !
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la plaidoirie, le slam, le reportage, le visuel et le réquisitoire qui remporteront le Prix Public 2016 !
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Le jury de professionnels du monde associatif, juridique, politique, médiatique, ... présidé par Gérard Biard, Rédacteur en chef de Charlie Hebdo et porte-parole de Zéromacho, s'est réuni mercredi, pour voter pour les meilleures créations et prestations en compétition pour les Prix de la Fondation Scelles contre l'exploitation sexuelle.
Événement unique, ces Prix donnent la parole à des lycéens, étudiants, futurs professionnels du cinéma, de la photographie ou du son, futurs journalistes, magistrats, et avocats. Chacun livre sa vision des phénomènes liés à la prostitution dans l'une des 5 catégories du concours : plaidoirie, visuel, réquisitoire, slam, reportage vidéo.