“I misplaced a whole lot of family members” – Liberation

Within the wake of the #MeToo motion, theater critic Marie Coquille-Chambel, soprano Chloé Briot and actress Charlotte Lewis testified to open-faced sexual violence. They return in the present day to this needed talking out which has turned their lives the other way up.

Marie Coquille-Chambel has the look of those that usually are not afraid of something. “It is a fully out of order feeling in me”confides the 24-year-old theater critic. She felt it for the final time on June 29, 2020. That night, the younger lady was nestled beneath the blanket of her mattress, alone within the silence of her small studio within the sixth arrondissement of Paris. The ball within the stomach, she writes a couple of traces that are about to “tilt” his life. It’s precisely 9:44 p.m. when she posts this message on social networks: “At present I filed a grievance towards an actor of the Comédie-Française for: “routine violence towards a weak individual that didn’t end in incapacity for greater than eight days”. She recounts the punches, reveals images of the bruises on her knees and her injured lips.

In a couple of hours, his story is now not his personal. His put up is shared a number of thousand instances on Twitter, and the press articles are linked. Day by day, his inbox is overflowing with messages. Journalists who attempt to discover the id of the actor whom she doesn’t title, activists who present her their assist, victims of violence who come to inform her their story. And, with all this, the just about day by day threats and insults: “Generally I crack up. It is unbelievably violent.”

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