Virginie Riva 12:05 p.m., September 21, 2021

The accusations of incest against Olivier Duhamel by Camille Kouchner, at the beginning of the year, have freed people to speak and listen around this scourge.

Today, the government commission created in the wake is launching a telephone listening platform for victims.

Objective: to better understand the phenomenon.

This was one of the explosions of the year 2021. At the beginning of January, Camille Kouchner's book,

La familia grande

, accusing her stepfather Olivier Duhamel of incest on his brother, had the effect of a bomb. .

Since then, social networks have allowed victims to express themselves, through the hasthag #metooincest.

The number of reports has exploded.

A government commission was created in March to work on incest and sexual violence against minors.

This Tuesday morning, she is launching a telephone listening platform to listen to the victims and better understand the scale of a phenomenon that is still difficult to quantify.

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According to the latest study revealed by the association Facing incest, 10% of the population is a victim of incest, or more than 6 million French people.

The telephone platform will be reserved for collecting the words of adults who are victims of incest or sexual violence in their childhood. 

A platform for victims and "protective parents"

If minors call, the listeners will redirect them to the emergency numbers, 119 and 17. The listening platform will also be intended for relatives, and in particular protective parents, the vast majority of mothers, who are trying to help. snatch their child from their companion or ex-companion. "I think that many of them will testify on this platform", advance Isabelle Aubry, president of the association Face to incest. "The big problem of the protective parent is that when he goes to file a complaint, at best he is treated crazy and we do not take the complaint, at worst he loses custody of the child who ends up with the aggressor."

In case of emergency, the listeners of the platform will be able to make reports to the Public Prosecutor. The platform must remain in place for two years. Along with the testimonies, questionnaires will be submitted to the victims to better understand their journey. Targeted surveys of general inspections of different ministries will also begin in order to be able to formulate, by 2023, the first public policy recommendations.