Survivor Reveals Abuse at Catholic Reformatory Homes in France, Sold in Tangier

"Like any closed center, obviously, from the moment it is completely closed, there are drifts. And there have been many drifts. [...] Physical violence, moral violence. What affects the most is always this devaluation, that we are worth nothing, that there is only our soul to save," recounts to Brut Fabienne Bichet.

She remembers the ordeal experienced in Toulouse. "I was in Toulouse, I was locked up in a former convent and there were two-meter-high walls with broken glass all around. So that we wouldn’t run away," details Fabienne Bichet, specifying that all these homes were monitored by prostitution networks.

Fabienne also confides that she was sold. "[...] inevitably, we were trapped and abused, and personally, I was even sold, I was sold to board a boat in Tangier. I was the object of the sale, I saw the bills on the table, I went to the toilet, there was a skylight in the toilet and I was able to escape." And to wonder: "But for me, who was able to escape, how many fell into the same trap as me, how many were sold, how many left on boats to Tangier?"