A "considerable" listening request.
More than 3,000 testimonies of incest victims were collected in one month by the commission responsible for investigating and formulating recommendations on the subject, declared in Nantes one of its co-chairs, during the first public visit of the commission.
“More than 3,000 testimonies have been collected since the appeal for victims launched on September 21,” explained Édouard Durand.
The co-chairs of the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence Against Children (Ciivise), Judge Édouard Durand and association manager Nathalie Mathieu, visited the University Hospital for Children in Danger (UAED) on Wednesday. from Nantes.
This is the first trip of the commission, whose work should last two years and which will give a first opinion before the end of the month, according to Édouard Durand.
The co-presidents will participate at the end of the day in a first public meeting in the presence of associations of victims.
Victims in educational establishments
Founded in 2010, UAED Nantes brings together healthcare, justice and police professionals.
Since January 1, 2021, 415 children have been heard there for all kinds of violence, more than half of them for acts of sexual violence or incest.
“Our first objective is to meet victims of sexual violence in their childhood, but also to meet citizens, institutional and associative actors,” explained Édouard Durand.
"The demand for listening is considerable," he added.
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After a wave of testimonies on violence committed in the family environment, the commission "receives more and more testimonies from victims within institutions such as boarding schools or educational establishments", he added.
La Ciivise was launched in January in the wake of the publication of "La familia grande" by Camille Kouchner, who accused her father-in-law, the political scientist Olivier Duhamel, of raping his twin brother.
It is responsible for collecting the voices of victims of sexual violence in childhood through a call for testimonies on its online platform and on the number 0805 802 804 and for formulating public policy recommendations by 2023.