The beginning of the end. On November 2, 2020, Caroline Darian received a call from the Carpentras police. Her father is in custody. The seizure of his computer equipment reveals the unthinkable: since 2013, he drugs his wife before delivering her, unconscious, to men, from all walks of life and without compensation.
In a book entitled “And I stopped calling you dad”, published by Lattès editions in 2022 and reissued this year in pocket format by Harper Collins editions, the young woman recounts this explosion, the perilous vertigo of discovering that a loved one, his father, is capable of the worst. For HER, in video, Caroline Darian recounts her mother’s ordeal and also warns about chemical submission, when the home’s medicine cabinet turns into a rapist’s favorite weapon.
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In all, more than 80 men are said to be involved in these acts of rape. About fifty of them have been identified and imprisoned. Most of them are in pre-trial detention. A trial will be held by 2024. Caroline Darian’s father was returned to the criminal court of Vaucluse on Monday June 26.
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“The first recorded rape is officially dated June 23, 2011 knowing that my father changed his computer equipment in 2010,” explains Caroline Darian. In total, more than 20,000 videographs and photographs were extracted from the computer equipment of the man she now calls her progenitor.
Her daughter, Caroline Darian, also thinks she was chemically subjected. “Police officers from the Carpentras police station found photos of me where I was supposed to sleep half naked. I know I can’t sleep,” she says. “But without tangible evidence,” his parent will not be prosecuted for these facts. “He denies it, he says he never drugged me without my knowledge. He just says he photographed me in my sleep. she adds.
Among these men, all profiles, all ages, all socio-professional categories… Journalist, firefighter, nurse, entrepreneur, truck driver, municipal councilor… “Some have returned several times. They are people between the ages of 22 and 71. We have people who are very well integrated into society, the majority are in a couple or have families,” explains Caroline Darian.
A case that is not isolated
Caught in this family whirlwind, she decided to take on this scourge and launched a petition to alert the public authorities to this phenomenon, which is still too little known to health professionals and the population. With doctors, she also launched the #MendorsPas movement, Stop chemical submission, to relay her fight.
“I realized as soon as I immersed myself in the subject, that our story was not an isolated case, it goes beyond the news item. These are practices that really take place within the family, in the private sphere, and it does not only affect women but more broadly children and the elderly. »
This movement, which is tending to become an association, aims to “prevent and raise awareness as widely as possible about what this kind of practice is, which is a fact of society, and there is a real public health issue behind it. »
