Evidence of incest is multiplying on social networks under the new hashtag #Metooinceste, which appeared on Saturday, January 16.
In the wake of the Olivier Duhamel affair, which erupted after the publication of Camille Kouchner's book, "La familia grande", hundreds of people told their tragedy on Twitter, as the writer said. revealed in his book.
She tells that her twin brother was the victim of incest by her stepfather, the political scientist Olivier Duhamel, when he was 14 years old.
On the model of the #Metoo movement which triggered a wave of free speech by women denouncing sexual assault and harassment from 2017, "these testimonies confirm what has been said and repeated for many years" by protection professionals. childhood: "The people who commit the crime of incest come from all walks of life", adults react "little or badly" and the signals sent by victims "are not heard", explains the feminist movement #Noustoutes.
The movement also 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.
The hashtag #metooinceste
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", reports an Internet user.
"I was playing Lego. It came behind my back. Growing up was over. I had ceased to live", testifies 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.
With AFP
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