La familia grande, this is the story of an incest and an omerta. Camille Kouchner had the courage to speak in this book, thirty years after the first accusations of his twin brother, who claims that their stepfather the political scientist Olivier Duhamel would have abused him in the 80s when he was 13 years old. . The 45-year-old lawyer dissects all the mechanisms of silence : how their mother Évelyne Pisier preferred to side with her husband, why everyone around her knew, but did not say anything, and especially the ordeal that "Victor" experienced (this is how her brother is nicknamed in this book to preserve his anonymity), who had no choice but to endure all these years. A story that shocked actress Carole Bouquet. Guest on the set of 8:30 p.m. on Sunday On France 2 on Sunday January 17, 2021, the 63-year-old actress returned to the Olivier Duhamel affair, and took the opportunity to send a strong message: incest can occur "in all circles, whatever the social environment".
"But how can you tell me that?"
“It's so violent, it's so hard to believe it scares. It scares the judges, it scares social workers, it scares everyone. Because: 'What the hell do we have as a tool to protect them? ", lamented the actress committed against abuse, who has supported the association La Voix de l'Enfant for more than thirty years. Carole Bouquet has also assured that her son Louis Giacobetti, born of his love affair with the photographer and director Francis Giacobetti, also thought, wrongly, that this only happened in certain circles: "I said to him, 'But how can you answer that?' You've been living it since you were born." "
Charlotte Casiraghi's mother-in-law also judged Camille Kouchner's book: "very useful". "I suffered for her, I suffered for her brother, for those years of silence that were obligatory", she explained. But Carole Bouquet nevertheless wanted to make a point: some members of the family knew it, such as the former Bernard Kouchner and his wife the journalist Christine Ockrent (who also did everything to bring down Olivier Duhamel), or again the actress Marie-France Pisier who has never been silent, but many, according to her, had never heard of this case : "Don't assume that the whole family knew contrary to what is being said now or that all friends knew. Don't you think that when you rape your stepson, you talk about it at the table with your friends? No !"
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