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“When I had the misfortune of meeting David Hamilton, I was 13”: Flavie Flament looks back on her fight against sexual violence

2024-02-17T13:01:31.264Z

Highlights: Flament spoke with Judith Godrèche, the actress who filed a complaint against Jacques Doillon and Benoît Jacquot for rape. “A woman who has built her words, who does things step by step, in an intelligent, not aggressive way,” says the RTL host. In October 2016, Flavie Flament had accused in a book, La consolation, the photographer David Hamilton of having attacked her while she posed for him. The facts, then prescribed, would have taken place in 1987, in Cap d'Agde (Hérault) when the young girl was 13.


In “Quotidien” Friday evening, the RTL host also gave her support to Judith Godrèche, who filed a complaint against the directors Jacques Doillon and Benoît Jacquot.


Admiration and advice.

Two days before her appearance in “Quotidien”,

Flavie Flament

spoke with Judith Godrèche, the actress who filed a complaint against Jacques Doillon and Benoît Jacquot for rape.

“A woman who has built her words, who does things step by step, in an intelligent, not aggressive way

,” according to the RTL host.

Who adds:

“I think that’s also why it has such a resonance with the public.”

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Judith Godrèche

, who now supports a cause and even opened an email box to collect testimonies from young women in suffering, Flavie Flament also gave advice.

That of taking the time to manage your own pain.

She herself has fought against sexual violence in the past.

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In October 2016, Flavie Flament had accused in a book,

La consolation

, the photographer David Hamilton of having attacked her while she posed for him.

The facts, then prescribed, would have taken place in 1987, in Cap d'Agde (Hérault) when the young girl was 13 years old.

A feeling of anger

“When I had the misfortune of meeting him, I was 13 years old.

He was a star.

I myself was a kind of kid who said to myself “I'm going to meet someone world famous, the photographer of young girls in flowers”.

“It’s all a masquerade, a decorum

,” thunders the former TF1 presenter, who denounces in these cases “

the complacency of parents, of society”

.

Subsequently, Flavie Flament co-chaired a mission to change the law on the statute of limitations for sexual crimes against minors.

The law has evolved in this direction, going from twenty to thirty years after the victim's majority.

Accused by four women, David Hamilton has always denied any guilt.

He was found dead in November 2016. The theory of suicide was favored.

“I was immensely angry when we found him dead

,” remembers Flavie Flament on TMC.

He wasn’t even able to face justice.”

Source: lefigaro

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