“I harassed”: a podcast that gives voice to someone who has repented of harassment and begs

That's a scary number. One in ten children are victims of school bullyinga figure which would rise to one in two among 7-8 year olds… To try to understand this phenomenon, journalists Estelle Ndjandjo and Paola Guzzo have created a 6-episode podcasts in which we listen to the testimony of Romain, 33, who looks back on his past at college.
So yes, some will say to themselves: “ok, okay, Romain was harassed at school, it's sad but hey, we've already heard a lot of testimonies like that, why listen to 6 more episodes?“
Except that.
Except that Romain was not harassed.
Romain was on the other side of the barrier. He was the one who was harassing. This is the originality of the podcast “I harassed“: giving a voice to someone who has repented of harassment.

When we listen to it, we say to ourselves that Romain did not have the typical profile of a harasser. Father a teacher, mother a school nurse, we imagine him growing up in a family rather aware of the subject. And yet… The demonstration is effective: if everyone can be a victim, everyone can also be an executioner. With his testimony, Romain takes us into the mysteries of harassment, he analyzes how the phenomenon is set up, in small repeated touches, more and more violent, how the trap closes on the victim, how she is chosen, why, those who harass decide to make another student their victim.

Around 1 million children are victims of school bullying in France. Which means that at least as many are among the harassers. Faced with this scourge which affects so many young people of all ages and all backgrounds, listening and trying to understand the mechanisms of harassers could also be part of the solution.

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