Virginie Riva, edited by Gauthier Delomez 7:51 p.m., September 21, 2021

For the launch of the government platform for listening to victims of incest, Tuesday, calls have multiplied throughout the day to allow a release of speech.

Ultimately, this platform should make it possible to design a strategy to provide a more appropriate response to this phenomenon.

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Some people have waited for this call all their lives.

The government on Tuesday opened a telephone listening platform for incest victims (0.805.802.804 and 0.800.100.811 for Overseas) in order to better take into account the phenomenon.

And many phone calls are already ringing on the occasion of its launch.

Calls are anonymous, free, and only department and age are requested.

The listening cell is reserved for collecting the words of adults who were victims of incest or sexual violence in their childhood.

It is mostly women over 50 who call, and the conversations are long.

Europe 1 met these listeners who take the time to discuss with these people.

Phones keep ringing

"What you are explaining to me is that as a child, you had the courage to reveal this violence and that no adult has concretely protected you?"

Élodie is one of the listeners of the government platform.

She accompanies the liberation of this woman's speech, over the phone.

The bells do not stop ringing, leaving little respite to listeners tried by the tale of these shattered lives.

Emmanuelle Piet, president of the feminist collective against rape, hosts this telephone platform.

"The listeners hang up to hang up again and there are a lot of unsuccessful calls", she explains at the microphone of Europe 1. "If it did not succeed this morning, the person can call back in the aftermath. noon or the next day and it will end up being successful, "she emphasizes.

Design a "child protection strategy"

This platform makes it possible to start from the words of the victims to make society face up to its responsibilities.

A strategy defended by magistrate Édouard Durand, co-chairman of the independent commission on incest and sexual violence against children.

"It is in this place that a strategy for the protection of children will emerge in a very powerful way in society," he said on Europe 1.

The platform for listening to incest victims should last two years, the time for the commission to make its recommendations to the government.