Post by Andrea Balart

[esp-fr-eng https://lnkd.in/duHm-gG3] [eng] Passion X   Six years ago I reclaimed what had been stolen from me, ten years earlier. I reclaimed my status as a lawyer, a role I have fulfilled through activism ever since. I am thrilled. This fits my personality perfectly. Incendiary, but from the margins. We’ve formed collectives and published journals, and we’ve given it our all. It hasn’t been all triumphs, but we always move forward in some way. Before regaining what had been taken from me, I spent six years tucked up in libraries and among the trees, hundreds of kilometers from those fateful events, trying to understand exactly what had happened. I understood: my problem was one of surprising recurrence. What was happening was this: my problem wasn’t my problem; I was a grain of sand taking refuge on an endless beach. To come to realize that with certainty at the age of forty is no small thing. I feel a great responsibility—toward my profession and toward my experience. Now what comes next is this: the responsibility of institutions. To repair, protect, investigate, and condemn. What is justice, if not the act of organizing society in an ethical manner? The victims are speaking out; now they must be heard as they deserve, and governments, Congresses, the police, and the courts must take over. Here in France, a young girl has just been murdered by a man who, since 2017, had been the subject of several complaints and three lawsuits for child rape filed in 2022, 2025, and, most recently last week—yet no charges had been filed against him until the little girl’s disappearance. Here in France, more than forty women testified in court against a former television presenter, and more than thirty women against a singer. We did our part: now do yours. This isn’t a threat—it’s more than that. You too? We want to hear your story. Don’t be afraid: speak out.