“Pelicot’s trial has helped launch My Word”: singer Suzane offers this Thursday, April 24 I accuse youA song “outlet” to denounce sexual and sexist violence, which she says she has first submitted.
“Not all monsters are only in cinemas,” says Suzane in this coup title, prelude to a fourth expected album in autumn.
At first, “Spit this song” In front of a piano “, with my guts”, recalls for AFP, the 34 -year -old pop singer, known for her feminist commitment.
Collaboration with Andréa Bescond
For the clip, she called on actress and director Andréa Bescond (The tickle), committed against sexual and sexist violence (VSS). VSS ship, known or anonymous, and activists parade on a black background, most of them in the closed face chamber.
Among them: actress Muriel Robin, singer Catherine Ringer, actress Charlotte Arnould, who accuses Gérard Depardieu de Rape, the militant of the rights of the child Lyes Loudes, the artist Miranda Storcevic, who presented a complaint (classified without continuing without monitor Gisèle, father, father, father for “and attempt to rape”.
The our Ohrafe collective is also represented, as well as the basis of women to which the copyright of the song is donated.
“I came when I can talk about that”
For the first time, Suzane also reveals that she had suffered sexual and sexist violence. “I am one of the young women who had to build on sexual assault, in a rape if you want to be precise,” which happened “in a professional environment,” he said.
“I was still not an artist. I still didn’t have my pen to fight with myself. So I committed suicide at that time,” added the singer, who remembers “shame” and preferred to bury his “invisible healing.”
This reflection also echoes an previous episode, when I wanted to report, with a gendarmerie, the “violation suffered by a work colleague”, without finding the expected listening, she says.
After years of avoiding, “there, I think I came when I can talk about it,” says Suzane, moved but proud to “raise his head.” The artist also greets the launch of the word in favor of #Metoo, but believes that this substantive blade is not far enough.
“Justice pointed out in this song, because I speak with society. Particularly with the State: can justice today, in France, do its job? Is it enough meaning?” She questions, lamenting, among other things, cases often classified due to lack of sufficient evidence.
Although complaints exploded (+164% between 2018 and 2022), the number of sentences remains extremely low and 94% of rape matters were classified without follow -up in 2021, it alerted a coalition of feminist organizations in 2024.
“All the victims I have crossed are warriors”
For itszane, reveal I accuse you For the public there is “a victory”, criticizing the use of the word “victim” of pass, which he considers associated with weakness.
“All the victims that I have been able to know are warriors. Because there are necessarily an instinct for the survival that is triggered when we experience things like that,” says the singer, who says he has attracted the courage of other stories, such as Gisèle Pelicot’s.
It will still be necessary, in your eyes, move the music industry. “The predators, in music, we all know them. But we are all silent,” says Suzane. “I cannot wait for enough evidence to be enough. I have the impression that it will happen, it takes time,” he adds, aware that “we cannot make a court on the networks.”
Does she plan to file a complaint against her alleged attacker? She says she thinks about it, but has not taken the step, preferring to advance through music. “I didn’t want to cite his name in the song, I didn’t want to give it importance. But I wanted me to understand that my fight, on the other hand, was important. And that I will take it to the end.”
Source: BFM TV
