DutchNews, November 20,
2017
European commissioner Frans
Timmermans has called on victims of historic sexual abuse to come forward in
the wake of the #MeToo campaign.
Timmermans, who told the NRC newspaper in 2002
that he had been abused as a teenager by an American priest, said victims had been ‘very brave’ to come forward against alleged serial abusers such as
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
‘It’s something that you carry with you
all your life,’ he told Italian newspaper La Stampa.
Last month the commission
announced it was launching an investigation into whether EU member states were
doing enough to enforce the laws on sexual intimidation. Since the Weinstein
scandal broke accusations have emerged of a culture of harassment in centres of
power, including the European Parliament.
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