“Breaking the Silent Scourge of Chemical Submission: Caroline Darian’s #Don’t Fall Asleep Awareness Campaign”

2023-05-22 10:49:56

Caroline Darian’s mother was drugged without her knowledge for years by her husband, who delivered her to strangers. This 44-year-old woman is launching an awareness campaign on Monday relayed by many personalities in order to better prevent and detect this scourge of chemical submission by a loved one.

“Don’t fall asleep”. This strong slogan is intended to be relayed in the form of a hashtag, from this Monday, on social networks. This is indeed the name of the awareness campaign once morest chemical submission launched by Caroline Darian. The 44-year-old woman, whose mother was drugged for ten years by her father without her knowledge and delivered to men, had already published a book to warn regarding this little-known phenomenon.

The victim suspected nothing

The court case is out of the ordinary. Caroline Darian’s father, then 68, was arrested in September 2020 in a supermarket in Carpentras (Vaucluse) following being caught filming under women’s skirts. The man will be released but with in-depth expertise and in particular a search of his home, the case becomes much more sordid.

Some 20,000 pornographic photographs and videos have been unearthed, including dozens of films showing his wife unconscious, raped by strangers. The wife suspected nothing before the investigators explained to her, gradually and supporting photos, what she had experienced.

In total, the police in charge of the investigations traced the traces of 49 men who succeeded each other with the couple between 2013 and 2020. In early May, the Avignon prosecutor’s office requested a trial for these men suspected of having taken advantage of the unconsciousness of the anesthetized mother to abuse her. A trial might be held in March 2024.

Not just “GHB in a glass of alcohol in a bar”

Caroline Darian explains, in a video shared on social networks, that chemical submission is the fact of “drugging a person without their knowledge to abuse them without them being able to react or sometimes even being aware of it”. Contrary to popular belief, this often occurs in the family sphere.

“Chemical submission, in people’s minds, is restricted to GHB in a glass of alcohol in a bar, and especially in the student population. Not at all! Chemical submission is much broader” , declared Caroline Darian to BFMTV.com in April 2022while his book, And I stopped calling you daddy, had just been published.

This scourge is still unknown to the general public, even though it is a major public health issue. Caroline Darian’s mother was notably anesthetized with anxiolytics and sleeping pills, present in the family medicine cabinet, and with a “completely simple” process.

“It was in his glass of water at the table, at lunch or in the evening. It might also be on his plate, from the moment the drugs were crushed and mixed”.

Unrecognized symptoms

Relatives can then witness strange situations, which remain unexplained due to lack of awareness of the general public as well as professionals to this scourge.

“For ten years, we, with my brothers, have been helpless witnesses”, explains Caroline Darian on BFMTV.

“We had our mother on the phone (…) she was making incoherent remarks, we had the feeling that she was in an advanced state of intoxication when she did not drink a drop of alcohol. She did not remember not conversations that we had had the day before, or even the same morning”, she explains.

If the general public were made aware of these “alert symptoms” of chemical submission, the close victims might be accompanied in order to carry out toxicological analyzes, underlines Caroline Darian. This campaign will notably explain the symptoms so that they are better known.

About fifty personalities such as Olivia Ruiz, Daphné Bürki, or Roxana Maracineanu, have committed to relaying the awareness campaign. “They are sensitive to this issue which affects women on the front line, but also children or the elderly”, explains Caroline Darian in the daily columns.

Educate and train doctors

In the medical profession too, the lack of training in this scourge is felt. “My mother had lost a lot of weight. She was losing her hair a lot, she was anemic. Her sleep pattern was completely out of order, she suffered from insomnia”, explains Caroline Darian to BFMTV.com. She had however consulted three neurologists, in particular for memory lapses, as well as general practitioners and her gynecologist.

“It went totally under the radar because health professionals are absolutely not aware, or even trained, to detect this type of case,” she laments.

The campaign therefore also aims to raise awareness among doctors so that “faced with inexplicable symptoms, they are able to evoke this diagnosis, thus saving precious time for their patients”, indicates on the campaign website Dr. Ghada Hatem-Ganzer, founder of the Maison des Femmes 93.

“Before imagining that in a family, which is supposed to be the place of security, of benevolence (…) you are drugged, for a doctor it is conceptually difficult”, indicates the doctor on BFMTV. However, she calls for “we to know that it exists” and to be “able to think regarding it”.

600 cases per year, a figure largely underestimated

The #Mendorspas movement is completely voluntary, specify its members. It aims to “attempt to better prevent, protect and optimize the care of victims of chemical submission in the private sphere”.

The number of cases of chemical submission each year is very difficult to quantify in France. Officially, we are talking regarding 600 cases per year, but this figure is largely underestimated. Some victims do not realize it, others suffer from amnesia caused by the sedatives. It is also difficult for some to file a complaint, especially once morest relatives.

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