The week was particularly trying for Faustine Bollaert in command of It starts today. She presented several programs around the theme: vacations that turn into a nightmare. Friday February 9, 2024, she listened attentively to the testimony Isalys aged 18. The young woman, accompanied by her mother, recalled a terrible experience she experienced when she was only 15 years old. She had gone on vacation, as she has been doing for ten years with her loved ones, to a campsite on the Spanish coast. During an evening where she was partying with her friends, she left for a short time to go to the bathroom. It is at this moment, that she was sexually assaulted. “I got down and someone was following me. He grabbed me by the hair and raped me. Subsequently, I found my friends who were looking for me everywhere.”, explained Isalys with a trembling voice. She is in shock and in tears. His friends therefore rushed to warn his parents and security. The teenager will be taken to hospital. Faustine Bollaert then asked him how the auscultation had gone.. “Very bad”Isalys initially responds before taking a long breath to recount the new ordeal she feels she has experienced.
“For me, it’s superhuman to do that”
“They laid me down on a stretcher, I saw dozens of people passing through my room, they asked me to take off my dress, took my underwear. They examined me. There were two gynecologists, two or three nurses, two forensic doctors, including men”she remembered, still devastated by this experience. Faced with this chilling enumeration, the famous host of France Télévisions unable to retain his tears. “For me, it’s superhuman to do that, to have a gynecological exam, with both paws in the air! I had just been raped and everyone was looking at my body. For me, it’s not possible, you can’t do that to someone.”, added Isalys. While his alleged attacker, a man of Dutch nationality, was arrested and indicted, he was released a few days later. “The prosecutor [espagnole] asked that he remain close to justice and not his continued detention”lamented the victim’s mother under the stunned gaze of Faustine Bolalert. “There still hasn’t been a trial?”, she asked herself. Isalys and her mother explained that they were still waiting for a date.