“This is family, so shut up!” : The horrors of incest recounted by Corinne Masiero (Captain Marlo) and 5 victims in a shocking documentary broadcast tonight on France 3.

On Monday, September 19, the French Inter guest actress Corinne Masiero gave a testimony as painful as crushing: she was the victim of incest between the ages of 8 and 13, by a cousin 10 years her senior.

His story is at the heart of a powerful documentary, Incest, say it and hear it, signed by journalist Andrea Rawlins and broadcast tonight on France 3 at 11:10 p.m. A choral film featuring six performances. Insults in speech, of which 7 million French are victims.

“The only time there is equality between social classes is during incest: it affects everyone, equally, everywhere. It affects everyone, bourgeois and prole” commented the 58-year-old actor. A disease that causes a completely paralyzing sedative effect, “A bit like rabbits caught in car headlights” he says.

Collecting the words of victims is always a difficult exercise, even if it helps to break the taboo. “Watching Andrea’s documentary is more than a duty” The actor emphasized at the microphone of France Inter; “It also creates shocks. You must be careful never to force the victim to talk, as this is a second attack. But it allows people to lift the veil because, unfortunately, when you’re a victim of this type of aggression, there’s a veil of protection that moves.”

A photograph that revives badly extinguished lights

The reason for the actor was a photo accidentally found during imprisonment. Opening her suitcase, she came across a photograph of her, then a child, taken during her time at Opal Beach, standing on the back of her now-deceased cousin. “I went up, I felt that a piece was missing” He recalls.

“Why I went to take this photo, we have defense mechanisms built into us to protect us, the brain makes us hide things from ourselves so we don’t go crazy and they pop up again when we can hear them. At some point, we feel the need to scratch to pierce the pus pocket. There were other incests in my family. I never had a taboo” Corinne Masiero confides in an interview TV magazine.

Going into the analysis will allow him to fill in the gaps. “I started a year ago, before that I had already done therapy, it didn’t work, other things came back, other aggressions. He helped the others to emerge.

It also happened through encounters, a life that forces you to learn to fight, to protect yourself, to trust yourself and others more. Because that’s what destroys incest: we meet the boss, in the family hierarchy, who has the authority… then we don’t know who to trust anymore. And there is a crime, we think we may have said, we did something to incite the aggressor.” He continues.

Incest, which largely explains his chaotic journey and years of hardship, alcohol, drug use from the age of 13 and prostitution, as he directly states Telerama in 2012. At the time, he explained that his excesses were related to childhood stories, without specifying which ones.

Horrifying numbers

In Incest, say it and hear itThe word is all the more laborious and often unbearable, because the documentary also confirms the terrible figures of incest and its devastating consequences. According to an Ipsos survey published in November 20201 in 10 French people claim to have been sexually abused as a child. 80% of sexual violence against minors occurs in the family. 1 out of 5 victims is a boy. Half of the victims have traumatic amnesia. 6 out of 10 victims are not supported when speaking, and half of the victims attempt suicide.

One of the characteristics of incest is that the child who experiences it is aware of its gravity. The loyalty conflict it provokes, linked to the close relationship between the aggressor and the victim, has a strong influence on its structure. “This is family so shut up” Comments by Corinne Masiero.

A valuable testimony, by the way, to discover Incest, say it and hear itBroadcast tonight at 11.10pm on France 3 as part of a special evening opening at 9pm with the film Un Amour Impossible, directed by Catherine Corsin, based on the novel by Christine Ango.