Lulu Van Trapp singer Rebecca Baby protests topless after being sexually assaulted during a concert

Soloist Rebecca Baby of Lulu Van Trapp, a rock quartet, denounced on Monday, July 28 in an Instagram post (since deleted by the platform) the assault she suffered during one of her concerts at the Cri de la Goutte festival (Ain), Saturday. While she had gone down into the pit to meet her audience, she found herself in front of "super excited guys" who grabbed her, one of them grabbed her breasts: "In more than ten years that I've been on stage, this is the first time that this has happened to me."

The Lulu Van Trapp singer, back on stage, then took off her T-shirt: "I'll stay topless until it's normal, [...] until your brains have gotten used to it not being sexual," she said into the microphone . Three women in the front row, supporting, immediately went topless, but one of them was reportedly ordered by a security guard to get dressed for fear of "being attacked."

Rebecca Baby describes the violence of this attack: the hand that she still seems to feel, "like a burn," under her T-shirt and her shock. She testifies: "I tremble, I float, but the instinct to not let it happen and to put this act in the spotlight is stronger than anything." The artist insists that this attack has nothing to do with the clothes she was wearing, blaming her attackers ' "frenzy of possession and destruction."

Lulu Van Trapp praised the Cri de la goutte festival for their response in helping the singer escape from what she described as a "pit of hell." The event's organizers responded in support of the artist: "This behavior is unacceptable. It is in total contradiction with the values of Cri de la goutte: respect, kindness, inclusion, safety for all." Rebecca Baby hopes to encourage all festivals to "train security teams and other supervisors" to protect the public and artists and to take their complaint into consideration .

The quartet Lulu Van Trapp declares that they make "liberating music" that should allow artists to reclaim space on stage and in the crowd. Parisians recognize that this change is not easy. The group notes a "delay" post #Metoo, particularly in the rock world . Sexist and sexual violence in the music world is not limited to this specific genre and is found in many festive events. According to a Safer survey (1), 75% of women consider sexist remarks, harassment, and sexual assault to be frequent at festivals. As for the deletion of the Instagram post, Rebecca Baby denounced it as "shameful censorship" : "This post was a source of infinite comfort."