In a video posted on Tik Tok, which reached 2 million views, a young woman challenged Emmanuel Macron about the domestic violence to which his mother was a victim.
“Dear President…”. Faced with the scourge of domestic violence, a young woman using the name Brocéliande decided to address Emmanuel Macron directly in a video posted on TikTok, Monday April 15. Facing the camera, she read for 5 minutes a letter denouncing the inaction of the justice system in the face of violence against women, even though it was supposed to be the “great cause of the five-year term” of the Head of State. The video quickly went viral, accumulating more than 2 million views 7 days after its publication on the social network.
The young woman tells the story of her mother, who was a long-time victim of violence at the hands of her ex-partner. Still threatened by the latter, her mother has just been refused by a judge the renewal of her protection order, “valid only for six months”. “Dear President, I have the honor to announce that my mother has lost her case”she laments.
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“He promised her that if she didn’t come back, he would kill her.”
“After months of fearing separation, she finally found the courage to do it, and he, after months of begging her to come back, saw that it wasn’t working. So one evening, he waited, hiding everything. at night downstairs from our house, and while she was returning from a party with friends, he attacked her”she continues. “Dear President, that night he not only attacked her, he also made her a promise: he promised her that if she did not come back, he would kill her and maybe even her children.”she adds, in despair.
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According to Brocéliande, his mother’s ex-companion is someone “violent”, of “choleric”of“obsessive” And of“alcoholic”who allegedly possesses a large number of firearms as well as a criminal record. “I’m telling you about a man who, six years ago, sawed off the barrel of his rifle (a technique allowing more precision and power), and pointed at my mother and me during a fit of anger , screaming that we deserved to die”she sighs.
“I don’t know whether to bring a body as ultimate proof”
The young woman also reports the harassment and threats that this individual would still subject her mother, her sisters and herself today. Despite filing a complaint, several court filings and numerous testimonies corroborating the family’s statements, his mother’s protection order was canceled on appeal. “Dear president, we are afraid. Because faced with a file of 37 attachments, […] the judge declared this gentleman innocent because, I quote, ‘maybe she is lying'”she accuses.
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Beyond that of justice, Brocéliande regrets the inaction of the police. “When my mother calls the police to tell them he’s parked outside the house, following her […]he is told that the street is public and that he has the right to be there”she blurted out, before concluding: “Dear president, he is going to kill her, he will do it perhaps tomorrow, in six months, in a year. There are some who wait for years for the right moment to come. […] Dear President, I am writing to you, but I do not expect anything from you. You don’t listen to the dead, so you won’t hear the living.”.
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In a voice message added at the end of Brocéliande’s video, we can hear his mother confiding her despair over the situation: “I don’t know if it is necessary to bring as ultimate proof a body, a corpse of myself or one of my children for this judge to realize the extent of what we are experiencing and the consequences and the magnitude of its decisions”.
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