His face was swollen.
His injured cheekbone.
In 2022, she denounced on Instagram the violence she suffered from her ex-partner.
The actress Judith Chemla has just published “Our silence left us alone”, published by Robert Laffont.
“I allow myself to speak, because so many women suffer from not being able to be believed and protected, because their words are not taken into account,” she explained this Monday on franceinfo.
With the photos of her injured face on Instagram, the actress explained that she had filed a complaint twice in one year against this spouse who had already been given a suspended prison sentence in this case.
Judith Chemla also denounced the moral harassment and pressure she suffered from this man.
“We don’t have to keep this a secret”
“I could never have imagined that I would come and bring into the public sphere all that is darkest,” she confided this Monday to franceinfo.
But, she maintains, it is “important that men who grant themselves the right to exercise their violence know that we will tolerate it less and less and that it can be brought to light (…) We have not not to keep it secret” According to her, our society “carries the discourse of the aggressor”.
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The actress of “Camille redoubles” (2012) or “Le Sens de la fête” (2017) regrets that “the guilt is reversed” that we make people believe that “it is up to men to be afraid”, cause of “feminazis”, she says with irony.
But afraid of what?, she asks.
“Afraid of the truth?
» The 38-year-old artist recalls that “it is women who die every two days” under the blows of their companions.
“I allow myself to speak because I know that so many women suffer from not being able to be believed, protected,” says Judith Chemla, actress, who was a victim of domestic violence.
“The great cause of the five-year term is just words. It’s shameful.”
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According to her, the Grenelle on violence against women, initiated by Emmanuel Macron during his first five-year term, or equality between men and women as a “great cause of the five-year term” are “only words”.
She denounces: “It’s shameful not to have put these words into action.
» And he asks again at the franceinfo microphone: “What would we do if it was the men who died under the blows of their partner?
We would react.
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