For AREVA’s warning launcher, Maureen Kearney, trying viewing of “the unionist”

In 2012, the former unionist of the nuclear group underwent rape possibly linked to his desire to report risk transfer risks between France and China. In the dining room on March 1, a film with Isabelle Huppert tells the hell she lived.

By Marine Bourrier

In the coquette room of Mandarin Oriental, luxurious hotel on rue Saint-Honoré in Paris, this February 20 at 10 am, a discreet bouquet of pink flowers sits on the small glass coffee table. Maureen Kearney, 67, arrived the day before Bressuire, in Deux-Sèvres, where she lives with her husband. Its calm contrasts with the bustle that runs through the corridors on the second floor.

This former CFDT delegate of AREVA, French multinational nuclear, installed its districts there during the promotion of the film The unionist, of Jean-Paul Salomé, in the room on 1 , inspired by his own story. “Today, I’m fine. I’m Found My Power [” I found my power “]” immediately announces this original Irishman, blond hair gathered in an impeccable bun. If the broad smile that it does not leave to guess a certain appeasement, the path of reconstruction has been long and tortuous.

On December 17, 2012, Maureen Kearney was found by his cleaning lady, in his Parisian suburban house, tied up on a chair, the letter has scarified on the belly, the handle of a knife swept through the vagina. At that time, she tried to alert even in the highest spheres of the State against the risks of nuclear technology from AREVA to China.

Then follows a terrible judicial gear, as unexpected as it is destructive: from the status of victim, she passes to that of suspect, accused of having staged an imaginary crime. For fear of the roller Judicial and industrial compressor who sets out, and in order to protect her family, she ended up making false confessions: “I was ready to say that I was Jack the Ripper”, She today. It is innocent in 2018, at the end of the appeal trial.

Of these Calvary years, the journalist of the Obs Caroline Michel-Aguirre draws an investigation, the unionist (stock, 2019), base of Jean-Paul Salomé’s film. The feature film team submits to him a scenario, where we find all the actors of this state scandal, from the bosses of EDF and Areva to Arnaud Montebourg, Minister of the Economy of the era. After a meticulous rereading, Maureen Kearney gives his approval. She discovers her story projected on the big screen for the first time in September 2022, in the Parisian premises of the producer, Bertrand Faivre.

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