2023-09-05 23:52:37
Sexual violencedossierThe French actress is back in a documentary to be broadcast on M6 on rapes suffered between the ages of 10 and 14. Four other victims testify.
It puts an end to several years of silence. The actress Emmanuelle Béart publicly reveals that she was a victim of incest between the ages of 10 and 14, in the context of the documentary Un silence si noisy, which she co-directed and which will be broadcast on M6 on September 24 at 11:10 p.m. “I didn’t want to speak, I wanted to make a space for others to speak. Confronted with them, with their sincerity, with their courage, I said to myself that I too had to speak”, explained the actress in a video message projected to the press before the film. “It’s a project that I’ve had in my head since I was 19,” added the one revealed by the film Manon des sources in 1986.
“His attacker was not Guy Béart”, his singer father who died in 2015, underlined the co-director, Anastasia Mikova, Tuesday September 5 during the presentation of the documentary to the press at the premises of M6. The co-director said she made this clarification at the request of the 60-year-old actress, who was not herself present for “family reasons”. Emmanuelle Béart specifies that she “does not wish” to reveal the identity of her attacker, because this is not “the approach” of the film, continued her co-director and friend.
The Secretary of State in charge of Children, Charlotte Caubel, reacted on X (Twitter) by “saluting the courage of Emmanuelle Béart and those who testify alongside her”. The Secretary of State believes that this documentary is “a fundamental step in understanding the sexual violence inflicted on children, and breaking the silence that surrounds them”. A preview of the documentary will be organized on September 19, 2023 at the ministry before the announcement of a “government campaign in the coming days”, according to Charlotte Caubel’s cabinet.
I salute the courage of Emmanuelle Béart and those who testify alongside her. We need collective awareness of this scourge which continues to destroy so many children.
Every three minutes, a child is a victim of sexual violence. Let’s break the silence. https://t.co/8uJQxJ6Iyu
— Charlotte Caubel (@CharlotteCaubel) September 5, 2023
160,000 child victims per year
In this documentary, the two women collect the words of four other victims of incest, and Emmanuelle Béart echoes elements of her own story. “If my father, my mother, my school, my friends don’t see anything, it’s because everything can start over, and you’ll start over for 4 years”, she says in voiceover, addressing the person who told her assaulted. According to her, it was her grandmother who “saved (her) skin”.
The documentary “is not a film about victims, but about beings who have been victims and who are fighting”, declared Emmanuelle Béart in an interview with the Elle magazine published on Tuesday. The witnesses are Norma, raped by her grandfather in her childhood, Pascale, who concealed until her fifties the abuse inflicted by her father, Sarah, whose ex-companion abused their granddaughter between 4 and 8 years old, and Joachim, who accuses his parents of incest, which they deny.
According to the Ciivise (Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence against Children) created in 2021 by the government, 160,000 children are victims of sexual violence each year in France and 5.5 million adults have been victims in their childhood, most often within their family. A situation that requires a “political and societal response”, pleaded Emmanuelle Béart.
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