In the wake of Camille Kouchner's revelations in his book "La Familia grande", in which the lawyer accuses her stepfather Olivier Duhamel of rape on his brother, the hashtag #Metooinceste was launched on social networks and in particular on Twitter.
They aroused Saturday "hundreds" of testimonies, according to the feminist movement #Noustoutes
"I was 15, my brother", "it was my grandfather", "the cool uncle of the family" ... In the wake of the Olivier Duhamel affair, a hashtag #Metooinceste aroused on Saturday " hundreds "of testimonials on Twitter, according to the feminist movement #Noustoutes.
On the model of the #Metoo movement which triggered a wave of free speech by women denouncing sexual assault and harassment from 2017, this new hashtag comes "in the wake of the publication of Camille Kouchner's book,
La familia grande
" , notes the feminist movement in a press release.
She reveals in this book that her twin brother was the victim of incest by her stepfather, the political scientist Olivier Duhamel, when he was 14 years old.
For #Noustoutes, "these testimonies confirm what has been said and repeated for many years" by child protection professionals: "the people who commit the crime of incest come from all walks of life", adults react " little or badly "and the signals sent by the victims" are not heard ".
The movement believes that "we would be able to detect this violence very quickly and put an end to it", arguing in particular for "massive prevention campaigns" and for better training of professionals who work in contact with children.
"Growing up was over. I had ceased to live"
The hashtag #metooinceste was second in trending on Twitter late Saturday afternoon.
Over the course of the messages interspersed with supportive reactions and calls to "shake the walls", the testimonies followed.
"I was 5 years old. In one evening, this brother of my mother upset my candor (...) In a second I was 100 years old", reported an Internet user.
"I was playing legos. It came behind my back. It was over growing. I had ceased to live," said another.
"The first time, I was 3 years old, my cousin was 14 years old. Fright. Lifelong trauma and amnesia for years", confided a third.
Incest remains a deeply taboo subject in society and still minimized, while it is massive in France with nearly one in ten people potentially affected.