“My father, this monster.” the touching testimony of a man who submitted his wife to rape under chemical subjugation;

Caroline Darian’s life changed on November 2, 2020. That day, the front pages of the newspapers were divided into analyzes of the American elections that took place three days later and the second arrest. Caroline Darian doesn’t remember any of this. His memories are both hazy and painfully accurate. On this Monday morning, she dropped her son off at a Paris-area school, then returned home to sit in front of her computer for a long day of online meetings. At 20:25 his phone rings, it’s his mother calling him. He lives in the south of France. “I would later learn that people who have suffered traumatic shock often only remember one detail,” he says. At this moment I see the clock on the oven. It shows 20:25 in white numbers. Encoded border. I am living the last seconds of a normal life.”

Family breakdown

His mother tells him the unimaginable with a trembling voice. Her father had just been arrested for filming up women’s skirts in a supermarket, and when police seized his computer, they found more than 20,000 photos and videos of her mother unconscious, handed over to strangers. Caroline Darian does not understand what she is hearing. Her mother tells her that her father used drugs for years without her knowledge and invited men to rape her while she filmed the events. The police counted these strangers…