When the thriller denounces sexist crimes | EUROtoday

On Apr 5, 2025

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“S I she answers, he will tell her “you actually take me for an fool”, if she does not answer, he will repeat the question and she will know that he really wants an answer, even if it will not suit her […]. It is a tree of trapped decisions, an agility course for a dog erected never satisfying. »Several traps have closed on the narrator of 34 m²black novel signed Louise Mey.

All proceed from the omnipotence of a person who considers the lady as his factor. We are within the closed -door of a studio. It’s within the morning, Juliette takes care of her child, Inès, born from a solo PMA. We perceive that she lived underneath the affect of a violent man, that he spent 5 years in jail for what he suffered from him.

The 5 years are bought. She discreetly lives her life as a younger mom. Her neighbor will quickly knock on the door to maintain little Inès. But, when she opens, it’s her former executioner going through her, and he locks himself up together with her.

Violence is in sight and stress, immense, evokes that of the movie Until the guardby Xavier Legrand (2018). New very seen voice of the French thriller, Louise Mey distinguished herself by feminist detective novels, as The second lady (2020) or Dirty (2023).

“The subject is omnipresent”

Louise Mey’s thrillers will not be an remoted phenomenon in police literature. In current years, many black novels have utilized themselves to unravel the parable of the serial killer with a superb spirit, the femme fatale serving as a bait, the lovable assistant of the star investigator, somewhat jug, or the sufferer with out depth, typically too lovely.

The saga Millenniumfrom Stieg Larsson, revealed in 2005 and immense world success, featured the burning fury of her heroine, Lisbeth salander, decided to take her revenge on “men who did not like women” (title of the primary quantity of the trilogy). Twenty years later, police fiction, in bookstores as on display screen, strives to dismantle the mechanics of violence towards ladies.

The author and screenwriter Pauline Guéna spent a 12 months, between 2015 and 2016, to observe the day by day lifetime of the legal brigade of the PJ of Versailles. Of his story, 18.3. A 12 months at PJdirector Dominik Moll pulled the putting movie The night time of 12who focuses on one of many issues she mentioned.

“Dominik Moll and Gilles Marchand, his co -Coscenarist, wasolated this story that particularly marked them, because it was that of a young girl who has been a young girl to have been a young girl. Going up the thread of his story, the police realized that every man who had gone through his life, outside of his family, had dreamed of killing it, burning it, destroying it. »»

Pauline Guéna, who has meanwhile published the very beautiful thriller Queen (Denoël, 2024), which also questions male domination, says: “I did not choose to treat violence against women. Simply, by investigating, the subject has imposed itself on me. He is omnipresent. Women are victims everywhere, in their families, in the world of banditry, in the street. »»

She remembers having attended a New Year’s Eve, for the needs of a scenario, to immediate appearances. “From 2 p.m. to 2 am, the defendants appeared in groups of eight. I haven’t seen a single woman… ”

Chaluse rapes and burns

Male violence lately saturated information, particularly by means of the shock wave brought on by Mazan’s rapes. Difficult not to consider this case by studying The deployment of the aspect“True Crime” signed by journalist Sabrina Champenois.

She returns to the Dunand affair, which broke out in the Yonne in 1984. A young woman, Huguette, escaped from a pavilion in the small town of Agoigny. Former child of the DDASS, she had been trapped by a job offer. It has been kidnapped for three months and subject to priced sexual tortures and incredible violence.

Mutilated breasts, pierced genitals, rapes, hot burn, ventilation … All this inflicted by around forty “prospects”, in their immense majority never arrested or identified, lengthening tickets to satisfy their fantasies. “Men who see a girl’s physique out there and who rush, that is the everlasting topic …”, indignant Sabrina Champenois, who admits having had difficulty sleeping on paper the story of the torture suffered with extra.

The feathers also evolve

Another young woman was a prisoner: Mickaëlla, released three days after Huguette’s escape by an unimportive police. The case did not make a lot of noise. “For them, there was no demonstration, no white strolling, so what will we do?” Sabrina Champenois protests.

To uncover

The kangaroo of the day

Answer

Among the folks interviewed to write down his story, a psychologist mentioned to him: “It is said that shame has changed camps, but young women victims of turns and that no one listens, I see every day …” So, concludes Sabrina Champenois, this affair, which could possibly be thought-about “vintage”, “is not only ancient history” …

What within the panorama of the detective novel, male authors? The feathers additionally evolve. We should learn, in current publications, the newest novel by the police and author Christophe Molmy, Like a butterflyunrolling the story of a rapist who persuades himself to “have a good time” with consenting ladies. Icing and fruitful stratagem: he tells a scene of rape from the viewpoint of man, then from the viewpoint of the lady. And the abyss opens, time and again, underneath the foot of the reader.

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