The LREM deputy for Eure, Bruno Questel.
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NICOLAS MESSYASZ / SIPA
It is a rare speech: that of a deputy who reveals to have been raped in his childhood.
This is the message that Bruno Questel, LREM deputy for Eure, sent on Twitter on Monday.
“He was not from my family, he was from the village;
of those places where the family is big.
I was 11 years old.
I never forgot.
No excuse possible.
No forgiveness possible.
No rest for the perpetrators of these acts.
You have to be indignant every second.
"
Bruno Questel was responding to a statement by former socialist minister Jack Lang, who said he could not be outraged "every minute" about the Olivier Duhamel affair.
He was not from my family, he was from the village;
of those places where the family is big.
I was 11 years old.
I never forgot.
No excuse possible.
No forgiveness possible.
No rest for the perpetrators of these acts.
We must be indignant every second @jack_lang https://t.co/hzillQ0qrM
- Bruno Questel 🇫🇷 (@BQuestel) January 18, 2021
It is indeed this affair, revealed by Camille Kouchner's book,
La Familia grande
, which provoked what is now customary to call a new "liberation of speech".
In any case, a speech by incest victims this time better heard thanks to Twitter's sounding board, with the hashtag #MeTooInceste.
Without using the hashtag himself, Bruno Questel participates in it in a certain way.
“These are lives that are crushed, you live with that all your life.
"
The deputy then testified with our colleagues from
Paris Normandie
and France Bleu Normandie.
“Through this tweet I wanted to say 'stop' to a form of discourse that I find unbearable, according to which at the time freedom in all its dimension could justify overflows of this kind.
When you have been a victim of that, there is not a second when something, a fact, a word, a gesture, a news, does not bring you back to that.
Including at the precise moment.
These are lives that are crushed, we live with that all our life.
No, there is no room for forgiveness, no room for forgetting, you have to be outraged every second, not to forget the victims.
It is not fixable.
"
Bruno Questel, 54 today, hopes that more child victims of these rapes will speak out.
"We have to talk, that the public authorities put in place the reception tools, that the parents are very strong," he tells France Bleu Normandie, without saying that he intends to make specific proposals on this issue. The national assembly.
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