Charlotte Pudwloski, guest of "Culture Media" on Europe 1 on Tuesday, created an incest-themed documentary series for the Louie Media podcast studio.
She describes, along with dozens of people she met, the trauma of the victims and a certain collective inability to correct this scourge, which is widespread in society.
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Describe the surprise of a family revelation about incest, tell the trauma of the victims, explain the blindness of society to deal with this still taboo phenomenon: this is the approach of Charlotte Pudlowski, author of the latest Louie Media series , titled "Or maybe a night".
In this creation, produced by Anna Buy and available in six 40-minute episodes, the co-founder of the podcast studio sheds light on a dark reality by inviting the listener to listen to the words of "incested persons", as she explains to microphone from Europe 1, Tuesday.
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For Charlotte Pudlowski, it all started during a dinner at a restaurant with her parents in the early 2010s. "Eight years ago, my mother told me that she had been a victim of incest," says the journalist. .
"I did not understand that, even in a family like that, so conducive to letting stories emerge, that word could not be heard."
Victims, "there are everywhere"
From fall 2017, when the #MeToo movement was born, Charlotte Pudlowski pushed her thinking on incest even further.
She discovers frightening figures: "The most telling is two to three children per class (who are victims of incest). It is 7 to 10% of children who are victims of incest."
According to a Harris Interactive study for the International Association of Incest Victims, there are around 4 million people who have been assaulted or raped by relatives before coming of age.
98% of this violence is committed by men.
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The journalist recounts with Philippe Vandel a "super easy" process to carry out his work of finding victims: "From the moment I was on alert, I saw them everywhere. In fact, they are everywhere ", she says, before referring to the people contacted.
"This is a person who sends an email to Louie and we understand between the lines that what she means by traumatic story is an incest story. This is a person who sends me a message on Instagram, Julie, to tell me that we never talked about incest stories at Louie. I had a friend whom I knew had been a victim, whom I had interviewed for another project a few years ago. years, so I decided to interview him. "
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"From the moment you put on the right glasses" and you realize the numbers, continues Charlotte Pudlowski, "it is really enough to open your eyes and ears to find the victims. And often, they want to talk."
According to her, "the podcast was really the best medium to tell all this. Both because it allowed this word to be heard and, for listeners, because it mimics the gesture which, I think, should be that of the society to agree to listen. "
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The author has conducted dozens of interviews for this series, also giving the floor to experts, such as psychiatrist Muriel Salmona or anthropologist Dorothée Dussy: "I really wanted us to understand and for this to be a podcast of analysis, without accumulating testimonies just to point out the suffering. "