"There Are No More Vivès Trials": the Nanterre Court Declares Itself Incompetent

On Tuesday, 27 May, the President explained that there was no record of the events in question in the Hauts-de-Seine. The Prosecutor's Office now closed the case or brought another court.

In the case between illustrator Bastien Vivès and children's associations, the criminal court in Nanterre finally declared itself "territorially incompetent" on Tuesday. In February 2025, the French illustrator Bastien Vivès spoke on his social networks: "For drawings, we asked about the category of porn site I was looking at, about my masturbatory practices and they wanted to submit me to psychological expertise. In France. In 2024. In the coun…

The Nanterre Correctional Court declared itself territorially "incompetent" to try Bastien Vivès. The cartoonist was prosecuted for "fixing" child pornography images in two albums.