“Everything is false, everything is a lie”. On the set of BFMTVthe main host of NRJ Sébastien Cauet spoke for the first time after the revelations of Publication and the three reports of sexual assault against him.
In his defense, he openly denies and denounces the relentlessness of the media.
The owner of the house intervenes
“It’s terrible to be accused of this kind of thing, there’s nothing worse, I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy” he complained on the set of the show It’s not Sunday every day.
For about thirty minutes he ticked off all the boxes of the classic rhetoric of the alleged attackers, trying at all costs to discredit the words of those who accuse him. Referring to the testimony of Julie Ollivier, 25, who claims to have been forced to give the host two blowjobs, one of which when she was still a minor, Sébastien Cauet intervened: «I know her, as I have known thousands of fans in forty years of radio […]. Do you think he puts a lot of people in hotel rooms? »
Wanting at all costs to shed tears for the injustice of which he considers himself a victim, he tries to demonstrate his exemplary nature as if violent men were necessarily “monsters who act in public spaces, car park raiders, killers of joggers […] These would be precisely these monsters, who would attack women and children, therefore people far from everyday life.”
A defense that does not hold up, as the activist and author Rose Lamy explained to us last September, in an interview for to miss. «The data tell a completely different reality: the violent men who attack, hit, rape, are mostly close to the victim, who we meet, with whom we live. Let’s try to push these monsters away so as not to face reality.”
“Attempted extortion”
Avoiding responding to the very facts of which he is accused, the presenter limited himself to repeating over and over again that it was all false, that he was the victim of an extortion attempt and that he had evidence that pointed to this. “I can’t wait to show them to you, I can’t wait to do it, I cry in the evening not being able to show you the irrefutable evidence handed over to the police”.
He also reported to “media court”, a machination of which he would be the real victim. “I am the first complainant of this story, I am the first to have filed a complaint, it is important that people know this”.
According to him, his accusers lied out of greed: “It was organized over several months or even years with an obvious desire to make money and cause damage.” An argument often used by famous men to establish their impunity as an aggressor, leveraging the stereotyped image of the vengeful woman, diamond-seeker, thirsty for notoriety. A woman who, in short, does not correspond to the image of “good victim” disinterested. As remembered Publication Nevertheless, “ However, most of the women who have spoken out so far do not wish to press charges or reveal their identities.”.
No, women don’t accuse “for the money”
It is clear that women who have the courage to speak out about the violence they experience generally get nothing more than a tarnished reputation and, in some circles, the safety, as punishment, of being blacklisted everywhere because men protect each other. Daring to report is not a way to get easy money. This is demonstrated very well in a report by the Women’s Foundation and the Observatory for the economic emancipation of women, dedicated to the topic “The cost of justice for victims of sexual violence” :
In addition to the significant financial costs that legal action requires of the victim, there are lost earnings and human costs related to the physical and psychological suffering and various forms of mistreatment that victims will encounter during their journey. Speaking out, filing complaints and spending large sums of money to seek justice do not guarantee that you will get it. Ultimately, women suffer a triple penalty: they suffer violence, the economic cost of justice and the more intangible cost of trauma that adds up on different levels.
Report “Five years after #MeToo: The cost of justice for victims of sexual violence »
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Source: Madmoizelle
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