Created only 10 days ago, the #balance ton bar in Montpellier Instagram page already has more than 8,000 members. This initiative comes from Belgium, it is a question of denouncing the attacks of which the customers are victims, and especially the customers in the bars. Assaults and insults from other customers or even staff.
The testimonials published on the page are edifying. Many young women denounce the behavior of bouncers or bartenders.
When it’s her turn, I search her pussy
“Bouncers are always violent. Once they forcibly took a girl out of the toilet because she was taking too long. They ripped off her t-shirt, she found herself at the door, naked“
“About two years ago, I was pretty tipsy, I meet a guy with whom things are going pretty well. And there the barman starts throwing condoms at us, saying “fuck the hard tonight“. I felt so ashamed, I just wanted to disappear “
“It’s a bar where I go regularly with friends. The bouncers hit on us all. One evening I go out alone, to come home earlier. One of the bouncers followed me to the Esplanade, tried to touch me several times when I clearly told him I didn’t want to. Today he sends me insulting messages “
“Two months ago, a girl in my group entered the viewfinder of a bouncer. He said out loud “when it’s her turn, I search her pussy “
“The bouncer who was taking care of me touched me very insistently. Then finished by literally emptying my sa on the floor. In the eyes of all, all my private things, tampons, towels, pills … It is the second bouncer who helped me to collect everything, asking his colleague to stop his bullshit “
I regained consciousness lying in front of the bar door
Some testimonies also denounce the phenomenon brought to light for several weeks, the rapist’s drug with GHB. “After only one drink I felt, loss of control, the impression of being a chewing gum, and not to control anything any more. I collapsed and regained consciousness, lying on the floor in front of the bar. _Anguish attacks, spasm, head spinning, I didn’t understand a thing_. “
France Bleu Hérault met Julie, 24, who recounts the assault suffered in 2014 in a bar in Montpellier.
You kept me warm all evening with your outfit
“It was a regular night out on a Friday or Saturday night with a friend. At one point, a security guard that I did not see arriving grabbed me by force by the arm. It hurt me. He forced me to go to the men’s bathroom. _And there, he started to tell me “_You have been warming me all evening with your outfit.” And then afterwards, he tried to kiss me, to touch my buttocks. Well, I was a little tipsy, but not that much. I heard in the distance my friend with whom I was in the evening. I called out his name. She managed to open the door. She gave him a soap. I don’t know what she said exactly. I don’t think I realized the magnitude of the situation. “
_ “My brain is completely amnesic but everything came back to me in flashback with all these stories of balance your bar. I think it’s very good this chain effect because languages are loosened and we finally talk about it At the time, I felt a little ashamed of what had just happened to me and _I didn’t know it was really an assault “