The Gambia is still healing its wounds, five years after the departure of Yahya Jammeh, who led the country for 22 years by instilling fear and repression of the opposition. Last May, the government of Adama Barrow agreed to implement the recommendations of the commission which investigated crimes committed during the dictatorship. Objective: to launch … Read more
It all starts in Salem with children’s games. Two very young girls, Elizabeth “Betty” Parris and Abigail Williams, cousins of about ten years respectively daughter and niece of a pastor, decided in the fall of 1691 to try their hand at divination: they wanted to know who they would marry more later, and what will … Read more
A call for witnesses has just been launched on the Twitter of the national police in order to find the possible victims of the sectarian movement “Shamanism of the origin”. Its leader, Cyrille Adam, known as Loup Blanc, was imprisoned on December 9 as part of an investigation for “rape, sexual assault and abuse of … Read more
It’s a date they don’t want to miss. An outstretched hand that they gladly welcome. It is 2:45 p.m. at the Champ-de-Mars in Paris. The sun tries to make its way through scattered clouds. It’s nice out. This Tuesday, May 31, Myriam, Badia and Sandrine attended the muscle building session led by Karine Roussier. Short … Read more
In Morocco, how many men have ended up behind bars for refusing to marry their alleged victim? How many young girls have lied to those around them, preferring to pass themselves off as victims of rape and condemn their lover to prison? In Morocco too, the trial between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard … Read more
“Between the 16th and 18th centuries in Scotland, around 4,000 people were accused of witchcraft. 84% were women,” says Claire Mitchell, a 50-year-old lawyer. In total, more than 2,500 people were executed for witchcraft, mostly strangled and then burned, after confessions extracted under torture. “They were kept from sleeping for days […] and they confessed … Read more
Nine women are burned for witchcraft on a riverbank in Dumfries, Scotland (April 13, 1659). MARY EVANS PICTURE LIBRARY / PHOTONONSTOP EThey were accused of spoiling the crops, of changing into animals to commit their misdeeds, even of dancing with the devil. In Europe, between the sixteenthand and the XVIIIand century, thousands of women and, … Read more
In the collective imagination, the forest is a calm and soothing place that calls for serenity, even meditation. A vision that probably does not share the forestry workers, victims almost daily of verbal and physical violence. In a grandstand at the Obseighteen representatives of the forest-wood sector share their concern about these attacks and give … Read more
He calls himself the “White Wolf”, shaman of a community he founded near Montauban in the Tarn-et-Garonne but also in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Cyrille Adams is imprisoned in Nîmes. 5 people filed a complaint against him for rape and sexual assault. At the end of January, a call for witnesses was launched by the national police … Read more