TW: rape, sexual abuse
The trial has started in the case of a French woman who shot dead a man she says abused her years - first as her stepfather then later as her husband. Valerie Bacot was just 12 when Daniel Polette began raping her.
bbc.com/news/world-eur… h/t @lakadyn
The trial has started in the case of a French woman who shot dead a man she says abused her years - first as her stepfather then later as her husband. Valerie Bacot was just 12 when Daniel Polette began raping her.
bbc.com/news/world-eur… h/t @lakadyn
He was jailed but later returned to the family home and she says he resumed the abuse.
She says he forced her to marry him and fathered her four children.
Ms Bacot admits killing him in 2016 but more than 600,000 people have signed a petition calling for her release. #France
She says he forced her to marry him and fathered her four children.
Ms Bacot admits killing him in 2016 but more than 600,000 people have signed a petition calling for her release. #France
Valerie Bacot's trial comes after a week in which 3 women were killed by former partners. France has one of the highest rates of femicide in Europe.
Femicide in France is classed as the murder of a woman by a current or former partner.
theguardian.com/world/2021/jun…
Femicide in France is classed as the murder of a woman by a current or former partner.
theguardian.com/world/2021/jun…
"These women who are victims of violence have no protection...The judiciary is still too slow...& too lenient towards perpetrators who can continue to exercise violent power...This is precisely what can push a desperate woman to kill in order to survive" bbc.com/news/world-eur…
“This is a woman who has been destroyed and devastated, not just by the lack of maternal love, the rapes, the blows, the denigration, the prostitution but also and above all by the indifference and the omerta of society,” theguardian.com/world/2021/jun… #France
“How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill?" I asked that on Australian TV show Q&A. That episode has been banned and I was accused of “inciting violence”
How long must we wait until cis men stop beating & murdering us?
If violence is the language that patriarchy understands, perhaps more women should speak it.
I made this in May 2020 about increase of violence vs women in lockdown
🎥 @rerutled
If violence is the language that patriarchy understands, perhaps more women should speak it.
I made this in May 2020 about increase of violence vs women in lockdown
🎥 @rerutled
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