“In his videos, he calls his wife a “slut” hundreds of times, a term he describes as a “compliment” in front of the investigating judge, and always says he loves her, that she is a “saint” to which he has nothing to reproach, even if it is “paradoxical” with what he did to her. » It is from the pen of Lorraine de Foucher, 38 years old, that readers of Monde discovered, on June 20, 2023, the rapes that Dominique Pelicot inflicted on his wife, Gisèle, for years.
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This article but also its investigation into migrant women victims of rape, or its exposure of the system of predation of young women in the porn industry, convinced the jury of the Albert Londres prize to award it to our colleague, Wednesday 4 December, its ninety-sixth distinction in the written press category.
However, sometimes you have to fight against yourself to read his articles. Repeat it several times, because a sentence gives rise to a disturbing image, provokes awareness, creates a chasm in our thought patterns. “I am often told: “It’s terrible to read”she admits. To which I always respond: “Imagine what it’s like to write. And that’s nothing compared to what it’s like to experience it.” » In his eyes, it's not nothing either, “for the field of documentation of male violence”which she has been exploring since 2017, to be rewarded. “It ennobles him”she assures.
“The challenges of present conflicts”
For his part, Martin Untersinger, 34, also a journalist at Mondewas awarded the eighth book prize. In Spy, lie, destroy (Grasset, 2024, 336 pages, 24 euros), our colleague tells at a human level the conflicting world of “our common space” what is cyberspace. “I wanted to put an end to the idea that hackers are pimply teenagers in their garage.he explains. Whereas these are intelligence agencies, soldiers, engineers… who answer to ministers, to chiefs of staff, and therefore, who intervene in conflicts. »
For the jury, chaired by the former France Télévisions reporter Hervé Brusini, the work “simply announces the stakes of present and future conflicts, based on the recent history of cyberattacks”.
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Finally, in the audiovisual category, the fortieth distinction goes to Antoine Védeilhé, 34 years old, and Germain Baslé, 27 years old. Their film Philippines: the little gold diggers (Keyi Productions for Arte Reportage) is a timely reminder that child labor “is still sadly relevant in the 21ste century “greets the jury.
