Gisèle Pélicot's daughter at the heart of a major documentary

Gisèle Pélicot's daughter at the heart of a major documentary
Gisèle Pélicot's daughter at the heart of a major documentary

Couple Julia Baudin

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updated at 3:13 p.m.

The children of Gisèle Pélicot. On the right, Caroline Darian, her daughter.
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In the wake of the trial involving her mother, Caroline Darian participated in the filming of a Télévisions documentary on chemical submission of which she herself believes she was a victim.

Say the unspeakable. Even shouting it. So that finally, he is heard. This is what Gisèle Pelicot his lawyers and his relatives have been working to bring before the courts for weeks as part of the resounding Mazan rape trial. The executioners will be condemned. After which the newspapers will stop talking about it. The damage will probably never be completely repaired.

Exhausted, devastated by the horror that her mother experienced, and convinced that she too had been drugged and raped by her father, Caroline Darian his daughter, decided to free up speech even more by agreeing to testify in a documentary. Commissioned by France Télévisions, produced by CAPA and directed by Linda Bendali, the film is currently being shot.

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We owe the director the resounding In the trash of arms dealers (2012) et Pedophilia, the silences of the Church (2011). Initially called “Chemical submission, the best kept secret of rapists”, Chemical submission, let shame change sides will be broadcast in the coming months on France 2. It takes stock of the situation and gives a voice to the victims.

Caroline, last April – around six months before the start of the trial in which she spoke at length – had already published And I stopped calling you dad. At 45, she is at the origin not only of this book but also of the M'endors pas movement and founder of the association M'endors pas – stop chemical submission. Chemical submission, of which women, children and the elderly represent 9 out of 10 victims, results in sexual assault in 70% of cases. If there are no precise statistics, the phenomenon would still be largely underestimated in France.

In 2022, however, nearly 2,000 calls and complaints were recorded on our territory, compared to 700 in 2021. Linda Bendali's documentary should be broadcast as part of an exceptional debate evening as the public service channel is working to do. regularly focus on major contemporary societal issues, including violence against women.

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