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Marzieh Hamidi est née en Iran en 2002, de parents afghans. Considérée comme « l'étrangère » autant en Iran qu'en Afghanistan, elle trouve dans le taekwondo une forme de thérapie pour affronter l'injustice vécue par les femmes dans les deux pays.
Obligée de déménager en Afghanistan pour lui assurer un meilleur avenir, Marzieh devient championne nationale de taekwondo.
Après la prise de pouvoir des Talibans en août 2021, elle est contrainte à l’exil en France, où elle intègre l'équipe de l'INSEP à Vincennes.
Au-delà du sport, Marzieh utilise sa voix pour dénoncer l’oppression des femmes en Afghanistan : harcèlement en ligne, menaces de mort, cyber-intimidation orchestrée : depuis la France même, elle est ciblée et recherchée.
Dans Story, l'athlète au courage immense, revient sur son combat sportif et sa lutte pour les droits des femmes. En visant les Jeux Olympiques 2028, Marzieh garde un objectif en tête : que la communauté internationale reconnaisse l'apartheid de genre comme crime, et que les femmes afghanes retrouvent leur liberté.
Elle raconte son parcours dans son livre « Ils n'auront pas mon silence ».
Obligée de déménager en Afghanistan pour lui assurer un meilleur avenir, Marzieh devient championne nationale de taekwondo.
Après la prise de pouvoir des Talibans en août 2021, elle est contrainte à l’exil en France, où elle intègre l'équipe de l'INSEP à Vincennes.
Au-delà du sport, Marzieh utilise sa voix pour dénoncer l’oppression des femmes en Afghanistan : harcèlement en ligne, menaces de mort, cyber-intimidation orchestrée : depuis la France même, elle est ciblée et recherchée.
Dans Story, l'athlète au courage immense, revient sur son combat sportif et sa lutte pour les droits des femmes. En visant les Jeux Olympiques 2028, Marzieh garde un objectif en tête : que la communauté internationale reconnaisse l'apartheid de genre comme crime, et que les femmes afghanes retrouvent leur liberté.
Elle raconte son parcours dans son livre « Ils n'auront pas mon silence ».
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00:00So in 5 mois, I saw all the change, I saw how women disappear from society.
00:06And when we went to the protests, Taliban, they started beating women in front of my eyes.
00:12They couldn't catch me to beat me because I started running fast.
00:15That little part, you know, I was an athlete, so I was running.
00:19But I took a video of that moment.
00:21When I saw in my face, just in front of me, they beat a woman.
00:24I said, oh my God, they have no limits.
00:28Like, they don't care.
00:41Hi, this is Marzia Hamidi.
00:43I'm Iranian-born Afghan and a professional athlete and women's rights activist.
00:48I'm here to tell my story.
00:58Iran is not easy.
00:59First of all, I was born and raised in Iran as a refugee.
01:02Unfortunately, I couldn't be like other people that they live there.
01:09I was facing many problems, going to school, competing in competitions.
01:15And to be part of society, it was very difficult.
01:19But for me, Iran is my home and is my country.
01:21But unfortunately, the system there is racist and they are against Afghanistani people.
01:28I suffer a lot there.
01:30And many other people also, they suffered a lot.
01:34And they are still suffering with the system.
01:36So I can say that it's not the best place.
01:41But I love there.
01:44And I miss my friends and my people.
01:52First of all, I was 12.
01:54I was 12, yes.
01:56And my mother, she decided to leave Iran and to go to Germany because she said,
02:02here, you will not have a good future.
02:05You cannot continue your life the way you want.
02:08And so she decided to go to Germany with me and with my sisters and with my brother.
02:15And we decided to leave Iran and to cross the borders to go to Germany.
02:20But unfortunately, the Iranian police catch us in the border of Iran and Turkey.
02:26And they forced us to leave the country and they sent us back to Afghanistan.
02:31So this was not my choice and my family's choice, but because we crossed the borders.
02:38So they said, you have to go back to your country.
02:41And it was the first time for me to go there.
02:43And I didn't know what will happen, how will be my life.
02:47Because for me, Afghanistan was just in the news, you know, like the bomb attacks, the war.
02:55Like it was all violence.
02:57And I was like, okay, where I'm going and what will happen.
03:00And I just know that my parents grew up there.
03:02So for me, it was something new and scary.
03:06And when I went there, like many men, they were looking at me and my sisters
03:10because the way we dress was different.
03:13And they were, they know that we are coming from, you know, other countries.
03:17So it was, it was, it was challenging and it was scary.
03:22So for me, it was very hard to live there.
03:24And I was there for two years.
03:26And it was very difficult because everything was new.
03:30And for the people there, I was like, they were calling me, you are an Iranian girl.
03:36So again, I was a foreigner there, you know, like the way they were calling me in Iran,
03:42they were calling me the same in Afghanistan.
03:44So for me, I was like, okay, where I belong.
03:46For me, it was a bit difficult to adopt and to fit in the society.
03:51But after one year, I fell in love with Afghanistan, with Kabul, with people.
03:57And I discovered new things.
03:59And I discovered my parents' city that they used to live and all the culture.
04:08And I fell in love with that.
04:09But I couldn't stay long there because my sister, one of the most singers in Afghanistan,
04:16she was the most famous singer in Afghanistan.
04:19And it was so dangerous for us to stay there because she was rapping against the Taliban
04:25and against the system that is against women.
04:32So it was a bit challenging for us to live there.
04:35And since she was so famous in Afghanistan, so my family decided to go back to Iran.
04:40And I went back to Iran again like this.
04:43And I was 14 when I went back to Iran.
04:55I didn't want to really go back there because I was in love with Afghanistan.
05:00And I was like, OK, I want to live here and I was like, this is my new home.
05:08But my family decided to go back again because of the security problems.
05:12And I discovered Taekwondo in Iran with one of my classmates in school.
05:17She she told me, do you want to try Taekwondo in in my gym?
05:22And I was like, yes, why not?
05:23And the first time when I went to the gym, when I saw people are kicking, I was like, oh, my God,
05:30this seems like it's my therapy.
05:31It's like my medicine.
05:33And I decided to continue Taekwondo and my coach.
05:38She told me, like, you're flexible.
05:40You have the talent.
05:41And if you want, you can continue.
05:44And after like three, four months, I started competing.
05:47So she was so happy and she told me you you can make more and you can be successful.
05:53So this is the way I discovered Taekwondo.
05:57And I decided to continue as a professional job.
06:01I mean, there are many girls that are doing Taekwondo in Iran and it's not something complicated.
06:06And Taekwondo is like part of culture now in Iran.
06:10And we have many big champions from Iran and it's not a taboo to do Taekwondo in Iran.
06:17So for me, it was easy to to do it and I was not really facing problems.
06:23But there were some people from families, you know, talking bad about me, like she's doing the sport of men.
06:31Like they were talking like this, but I never care about what they are saying.
06:36So I was doing my my stuff just sometimes I was stressed because I was I had a refugee status there.
06:43So I was sometimes stressed if I'm going to have a problem in competitions.
06:49If I want to go international competitions, how I'm going to make it.
06:51So I was just stressed about that.
06:58When I started Taekwondo, like the beginning of the month, I was abused sexually by a man.
07:05And I was feeling very depressed and sad.
07:10And I was thinking that how I'm going to live with all of this sadness and depression and about what happened to me.
07:17So it was very difficult for me.
07:21And I was not going training because I had to go to the judge or the police and I had to deal with my case because I went to the police and I made I made I opened the case against him.
07:32And so it was very complicated and it was it was difficult for me because it was a lot of pressure on me.
07:39And I was just a young girl that I went to the police and I said, OK, this man, he abused me and I need help.
07:49So it was not easy and I was feeling very alone.
07:52And it was not many people by my side.
07:56And they were they were seeing me that I'm ashamed for them because I just stand for my right.
08:04And they were like, OK, so, you know, because in that society, it was a shame to talk about this kind of things.
08:12And they were like, oh, so it's finished for her, you know, so I was feeling really alone and I was fighting alone against that.
08:20And it was very difficult.
08:21And the judge was bad with me because, of course, they always support men, not women.
08:26So it was very difficult.
08:28And I was very I was in a very bad situation mentally.
08:31So for me, Taekwondo become a trap.
08:33And when I was training, I was it was a time for me to forget, OK, what happened to me and all these injustices.
08:41And I was just training and I was like, OK, I feel better when I'm training and I think less about what happened.
08:49So because of that, Taekwondo was something that I I was always like a medicine, like you take to feel better.
08:56For me, Taekwondo was like this and I was feeling better and it helped me a lot to not fall in depression.
09:03And to be with my teammates, to making competitions.
09:06So it was a way to to not think about it.
09:14I was always seeing in the media, like what is going on to the woman, you know, especially to Yazidi woman, because when I was on that age,
09:22I mean, Yazidi woman, they were slave for Daesh.
09:26So I was always affected by like emotionally.
09:30I was feeling sad when I was seeing that in the news, like what is going on over there and what they were doing to the woman.
09:37But when I faced injustice by myself, I was like, OK, it's a it's a really bad situation for a woman, you know, not only Yazidi woman there.
09:48So I'm also one of the victim, but of course, in another way.
09:52And that was the first time I faced injustice in a very young age.
09:57And in my head, I understood that, OK, there are there are many things that I have to fight.
10:03And I was feeling that I will become a fighter, you know, I will become a fighter for for women's rights.
10:12And in the teenage time when I was a teenager, I was always feeling angry and I was feeling, OK, this is not right.
10:22What is going on?
10:23Like it's not normal.
10:25So I was always feeling that and I was always feeling that I have a duty is my duty to fight against that.
10:31And I was feeling this in my heart.
10:34I remember one day I came back from school and I was in Iran.
10:38I came back from school and I was eating with my mom and I saw in the news that they killed a young girl in Afghanistan, in Kabul
10:45because of they say that she disrespects the Koran and they burn her.
10:52They burn her in the city in front of everyone.
10:55And they and when I saw all the violence, I felt like I'm in that situation.
11:02So I was really attached about what is going on on women.
11:06And it was sad to see all of this is going on in the world and I'm just safe with my family.
11:13But I was always feeling that in the future, I will be a fighter because when I saw Nadia, she she was one of the slaves of Daesh.
11:24When I saw she escaped and she came to Europe, she saved her life.
11:29I was so in a spite of her.
11:31I said, how is this possible to escape from Daesh and to save your life?
11:36So she became my my example when I was very young and I was feeling that I want to be like her, you know, like very strong, very brave.
11:45And she also she's still also fighting for women's rights.
11:48So this all started when I was very young.
11:51I came back in Afghanistan in 2020, like I didn't stay long in Iran again because, again, my family, they said
12:06there was nothing here for us.
12:08And I was a good athlete.
12:10I was competing.
12:12And my brother, he said that you can be a national team of Afghanistan and you can represent Afghanistan.
12:17So it's better to to to move there and to leave there.
12:21So we decided to to to go to Afghanistan.
12:24And when I went there,
12:27it was awful.
12:28Like Afghanistan, it has been always bad, the situation there.
12:32Like, but at least they were not Taliban.
12:35So I could train, I could be national team, I could compete, I could be in society, you know,
12:41but it was very, very bad situation for women.
12:45Like security was awful and they were they were kidnapping many women, many young girls
12:51and the violence still was there.
12:55So it was many just since against women.
12:58But at least I could leave home and go to the training.
13:03So the situation was not really interesting.
13:06But compared to now, of course, I could
13:10do my sport.
13:11I could go to class.
13:13I could go out with my family and enjoy life.
13:17I could do things, but it was always with fear because each time I was leaving home,
13:22I was praying that I can come back home safely
13:27because I didn't know if I was afraid of bomb attacks
13:31because every week was this happening in Kabul.
13:33And it was like, maybe the next will be me or the next will be my family.
13:38So this was with this fear.
13:41I was living in Afghanistan with a lot of stress and I was suffering with that.
13:45And even sometimes when I was coming back from training to home,
13:48I was seeing on the way that there is a family that they are dead because of a bomb attack.
13:55So I was living in a tragedy life.
13:57So it was very difficult to feel comfortable because you don't know if you're going to die.
14:04You don't know what is the next tomorrow for you, you know, so it was very difficult.
14:09But still, I was living and I was enjoying with my family
14:14and we were trying to be happy even everything was bad and dark there.
14:19Before Taliban arrived in Kabul, there was war in the cities, other cities,
14:28and they were taking power all over like Afghanistan.
14:32And it was just only Kabul that was safe.
14:35So it was very scary.
14:37And one day before the Taliban came, I went out with my friend
14:41and we were always going to a cafe
14:46that it was always crowded, like young people there, like it was totally different.
14:52And when we went there, there was there was no one.
14:55It was only me and her and everybody there was like three, four men there.
14:59And they were looking weird to us, like what they are doing here.
15:03Like everybody know Taliban are coming except me and my friend.
15:07And then I was feeling not good.
15:09And I said, OK, let's go home because I feel like something is wrong.
15:13And like when I was looking at the city and around me,
15:19everything was bizarre, like there was energy, like something will happen.
15:24And when I was walking, there was a guy like he crossed and he said,
15:28tomorrow the Taliban will come and you will you cannot dress like this anymore.
15:33You know, and my friend was telling me that she's hearing many shotguns
15:37and I was like, OK, there is something happening because they are entering the city.
15:44And my brother, he came and he told us that you have to change your clothes
15:49because Taliban are in the city
15:52and they can come to home and they can check everything.
15:55So you have to be like well covered.
15:57And I was like, no, they are not here.
15:59They cannot be here.
16:00It's not possible.
16:01You know, there was a part of me who was fighting against that
16:05to not accept they are here.
16:07And when I woke up in the morning, I saw everything is normal in the city.
16:11People are in the streets, like everything is normal.
16:14And I don't see Taliban.
16:17And then I saw in the news, they say that Taliban are in Kabul.
16:23But I was like, maybe it's fake or it's a mistake,
16:26you know, because sometimes they were having mistakes.
16:29and then I saw someone was going live in Instagram
16:35and she was showing the cub in the streets
16:37and they were Taliban in the streets.
16:40Again, I was not accepting.
16:42I was like, no, it's not possible, you know, and my father, he came home.
16:46He was outside.
16:47He said, I saw Taliban.
16:49I said, no, it's not possible.
16:50He said, he said, you can go out to see if you don't if you don't believe.
16:54So that was the moment I was like, OK, they are here.
16:59And in one hour,
17:03everybody left the streets like it was empty
17:07and it was so heartbreaking for me because I saw everybody is afraid of Taliban
17:12and they are like just going back to their homes and they want to hide.
17:17And I saw one of the police officer, he changed his clothes quickly
17:21because he didn't want to be killed by the Taliban.
17:24So that was very heartbreaking for me to see how everybody is changing just to survive.
17:35Imagine my life.
17:37OK, now I will live with burqa.
17:40I will marry Taliban members.
17:42I will give birth.
17:43I was imagining my life like this.
17:45I was just imagining how I'm going to live now with them.
17:48So I don't know why I was thinking like this, because I was thinking it's the end for me.
17:53But then I saw in Instagram and Facebook that everybody is going to the airport.
17:58They are they are trying to leave the country.
18:00But for me, that moment, I was feeling my home is the most safe place now,
18:04because I don't know if I go to the airport, what will happen to me?
18:08You know, if they catch me,
18:11I don't know.
18:12It was so risky, you know.
18:14So I was like, OK, I just want to be with my family
18:16and I just want to stay at home.
18:18And some of my friends call me like, come, we take you.
18:21Let's go to the airport.
18:22I said, I don't go.
18:24I don't have this courage to go to the airport and face them and to leave
18:28because they were beating people.
18:29And of course, there were German,
18:34French, American army there, you know, to help people to leave.
18:38But I was not even trusting them because why you want to help us to leave?
18:44What is the deal behind that?
18:45You know, so in five months, I saw all the change.
18:49I saw how women disappear from society.
18:52And when we went to the protests,
18:55when we when we went to, it was a manifestation.
18:58And when we went there with my some friends,
19:02Taliban, they start beating women in front of my eyes.
19:05They couldn't catch me to beat me because I started running fast.
19:08That little, you know, I was an athlete, so I was running.
19:12But I took a video of that moment.
19:13When I when I saw you in my face, just in front of me, they beat a woman.
19:18I said, oh, my God,
19:20they have no limits, like they don't care.
19:29I was not staying at home because it was beginning of their power.
19:32So they wanted to show to the world like, OK, we change.
19:35We are good people.
19:37We want peace.
19:39You know, we respect everyone.
19:40So I was using that against them.
19:43I was using the lie they were saying against them.
19:47And I was going out every day because when I was staying home,
19:51I was feeling that I'm in prison.
19:53But when I was out, I was feeling better
19:55because I prefer to be out and to see what is going on.
19:57So I was going out, I was going to the restaurant that I used to go a lot.
20:02When I was entering the restaurant, it was full of terrorists.
20:05And me the only one like there, a girl with my friend.
20:08I was like, oh, my God, shall we enter or we have to go back home?
20:12And I was like, no, we enter, we go inside.
20:14And like one time in the restaurant, there was a family part, you know,
20:19like just families go there.
20:21And the guy of the restaurant told me it's better you go there
20:24because there is no one so you will be safe and you will not sit with Taliban.
20:28I said, no, I will sit in the middle of all the men, you know, so it was very scary.
20:34And my friend was like, if something happened, it's because of you.
20:37And I was like, let's let's see what will happen,
20:39because I want to see what will happen, you know.
20:42So at the same time, I was very brave, but deep heart.
20:45I was like, oh, my God, if they kill me, you know.
20:47And then when I was passing one of the members of Taliban, I fall from stress.
20:53I feel I'm dead from and I felt I felt I'm dying from stress.
20:58And my friend, she panicked.
20:59She she she said, let's go, let's go home.
21:01You know, I was like, OK, I made it.
21:03After that, I had no fear from Taliban.
21:06You know, I faced that.
21:07I faced what I was afraid of.
21:10And after I was going out every day, I was seeing what is going on, you know,
21:14and I wanted to see how things are changing because I know I will leave one day.
21:20So I wanted to see everything before I leave and to keep it in my mind
21:25and to keep it for a future fight, you know.
21:28And it was very bad.
21:31It was very tough.
21:32And I was making interviews with Western media, you know, with foreigner journalists.
21:38It was very risky, but I was covering, you know, that that was the moment
21:43a new marriage that was born.
21:50Well,
21:51when I was in Kabul,
21:52I had an interview with a French journalist, Elle magazine,
21:58and she made an interview of me.
22:00And there was a photo exhibition of me in Champs-Élysées
22:03with other Afghanistani women.
22:06And
22:07and after she called me, she said,
22:09do you have a visa for a country?
22:10I said, no, I don't have a visa.
22:12And she said, we try to help you to leave the country.
22:16And they they helped me to leave the country.
22:19And it was very stressful for me because
22:24at the airport,
22:25I was in trouble because of my medals in my luggage.
22:29And I was like, OK, maybe they will not let me leave the country.
22:34But they had to deal with the West to let people to leave.
22:37So they let me leave the country.
22:41I left alone.
22:42I was just with other two girls
22:44that they were in the same magazine with me.
22:48And
22:50I left everything.
22:51I left my home, my family, my friends.
22:55I had just my luggage.
22:56I have just my medals, some documents,
22:59and I have just two pants
23:02and three traditional clothes of Afghanistan
23:05because I was like, I want to have something from there.
23:08That was the only thing that I had.
23:10And I was like, I don't care about it.
23:13I just want to leave.
23:14You know, I just want to survive.
23:15The day when I was leaving, my mom, she wanted to cry.
23:18And I said, don't cry.
23:20I don't want to see you cry when I'm leaving
23:22because I know we will see each other soon.
23:25And I arrived in Paris and it was morning.
23:35I remember December 1st of December 2021.
23:39I arrived in Paris.
23:40It was 8.30, 8.30 morning.
23:44And
23:46I saw like, it's dark, the sky.
23:49And I say, they told me that I will arrive in the morning,
23:52but why it's dark, the sky?
23:55I feel like it's night.
23:56So they told me, no, it's morning.
23:58And I was like, oh, my God.
23:59And then when I left the airport and when we went inside the car,
24:03I start feeling that the sky is like killing me, like, you know, like choking me.
24:11I feel like I'm dying from sadness.
24:15And I opened my phone.
24:17I went to the Google map and I was and I checked, like I said, oh, my God, I'm so far away.
24:23I was like, it's finished.
24:24I cannot go there anymore.
24:26And it was very sad for me.
24:28And I was with two other girls.
24:31They were sisters.
24:32And I just look at them and we start crying.
24:35And that was the moment I felt I'm in exile and I can't go there anymore.
24:41And it was very difficult for me.
24:44And when I went to the hotel, when I entered in the room,
24:47I was feeling like I'm entering in another world.
24:51And the sky was so beautiful that day, but it's so beautiful.
24:55But I don't feel happy.
25:03I was in a hotel for like 20 days, I think.
25:07We were in the hotel in Mon Rouge.
25:09And each time, sometimes like I pass Mon Rouge,
25:12and I feel that moment that I was there.
25:15And then they gave us a house in Châtillon,
25:22somewhere like that, with two other girls.
25:25I was there for like two months.
25:26And then Merido Vincennes, they welcome me and they give me a flat.
25:31So I was living there until like last year, before the threat start.
25:36So I was there.
25:38And, you know, still I was not feeling good because
25:44part of me still was in Afghanistan until like my family left.
25:49And each time I was thinking of people.
25:52And when I was seeing the injustice, it was killing me.
25:55And, you know, like my soul was there and still is there.
26:00And it was very difficult to make the balance and to connect
26:05with the place that I am.
26:06I started practicing Taekwondo, I think like one month after when I arrived,
26:17because I was like, oh, my God, I have to go back to Taekwondo.
26:20And I was going into I was going in a French class.
26:24And when I told the teacher that I'm an athlete and she was like, wow,
26:28you're an athlete, she was surprised.
26:30And then she told me I can help you to find a club to go to the training.
26:34And she found me a club.
26:36And when I went to the club the first day, the coach told me, wow,
26:40your technique is so good, because he was thinking, OK,
26:43she's coming from Afghanistan, so she's not good in Taekwondo.
26:47But I was very good and he was surprised and he was happy also.
26:52I saw first in the club and after when I moved to Vincennes,
26:55I started training in INSEP with French team.
26:58When I started with French team and I was looking at them like we were in the same age,
27:01but I was feeling like I'm older than them, like 10 years, 20 years older than them.
27:07I was so mature than them.
27:09We were so different and we are different, you know.
27:12So I was feeling the lack of sympathy, lack of support.
27:17I was feeling alone, like there was no emotional support.
27:22So I was suffering more and I was feeling more alone.
27:26That time for me, Taekwondo was like, OK, I have to do it because I have to survive.
27:31You know, but I was feeling at the same time Taekwondo is not going to solve the problems.
27:36I lost that confidence that I had and that spirit of fighter as a Taekwondo fighter.
27:44I was training like I was training hard, like when I'm training, I'm strong,
27:48like I train strong, like I'm really focused.
27:51But when I was going competition just before fight, I was like, for what I'm fighting?
27:57You know, I was in a war with myself, like for what I'm fighting.
28:01I didn't have any motivation for competition.
28:04I wanted to go and win, you know, but there was part of me that was stuck of past life.
28:11That was something I was suffering a lot about it because I was feeling alone
28:16and there was not emotional support.
28:17I was just training and I was always injured because I was suffering from a lot of stress
28:23and my body was not recovering.
28:24And at that time, I didn't have a good coach to to take care of me,
28:30you know, to support me and to to to help me to achieve what I want.
28:36My new coach, Pedro, he's he's very supportive and I'm happy I found him
28:44and I hope I can achieve what I want with him.
28:48But but two years, I suffered a lot and I feel nobody see that.
28:58Since I came to France, of course, I was always fighting for women of Afghanistan,
29:02you know, talking with media, like using my platform,
29:06everything to be their voice.
29:08And when the Taliban announced that women cannot speak in public and I was like,
29:14is it a joke or like,
29:16I mean, they have they are not afraid of international community,
29:20you know, they just make rules and there is no one there is no consequences for them.
29:25So I was very angry and
29:27and I relaunched my hashtag Let Us Exist because I wanted to
29:34to to talk about this situation and I wanted to
29:38people talk about the situation, you know, because this was not something normal.
29:42And many people support my hashtag like in my ex account,
29:47more than I think million people, millions of people support.
29:51and I was happy to see that support.
29:53And after Shafi asked me for interview for his
29:59for his YouTube channel,
30:01so I talked about the cricket national team of Afghanistan
30:03because they are good friends of Taliban and Taliban are supporting them
30:07and they are like family.
30:10So I said they are not representing me and the Afghanistan woman.
30:14They are representing terrorists and they are terrorists.
30:16The day after it was just all over the media, like, I mean,
30:21Persian media, you know, against me, like writing bad things,
30:25like comments was horrible.
30:27But I'm not a person who cares about these kind of things.
30:30I was like, I don't care.
30:31They can write whatever they want.
30:33But everybody was calling me.
30:35Oh, do you see TikTok?
30:36Oh, do you see Facebook?
30:38Do you see Instagram?
30:38What is going on?
30:39I was like, yes, but I don't care because it was like
30:41all over social media, they were attacking me.
30:44And then the day after I was at my home,
30:48then I received a call.
30:49It was like around 5 p.m.
30:53When I saw the number, it was Afghan number.
30:56I said, who is this number is calling me?
30:57And when I saw the profile photo, it was not a normal person, you know,
31:01I didn't answer.
31:03Then he called me again.
31:05I felt it's someone from them, you know,
31:09because I know like the face was telling me who is he.
31:12So I responded and I recorded at the same time when I was talking.
31:16So he was talking in Pashto.
31:18I speak Farsi.
31:19He was talking in Pashto and I said, I don't understand what you're saying.
31:23And he said, why are you talking about cricket team?
31:25Why are you talking about Rashid Khan?
31:27Rashid Khan is the captain of the team.
31:30And
31:32I said, because you're a terrorist.
31:34And he said, I have your address.
31:36Yeah, I mean, he said all of this in Pashto.
31:38And after I asked my friend to translate for me and when I
31:42when I
31:43when I finished, you know, with him,
31:46I received nonstop calls.
31:49I was like, what is going on in my phone?
31:51Like there are like numbers calling me from different countries.
31:54Like it was like I was like,
31:58is it real or what?
32:00I was in shock.
32:02Then I called my friend.
32:03I said, where are you?
32:03I have to leave the home because they have the address.
32:06And she said, call my home.
32:08And I went to my friend's home.
32:10And then I called my lawyer, Ines.
32:12I said, OK, I need help
32:15because there are many numbers are calling me.
32:18They have my address and I don't know what's going on.
32:20You know, like I need help.
32:21I need to go to the police.
32:23So then she came and we went to the police.
32:25We opened the case
32:27and even the police was shocked
32:29because when I was with the police, they were calling.
32:31They were calling.
32:31And when he saw my phone, he was like, oh, my God, like,
32:34what's going on?
32:35Like in two hours, 500 numbers were calling me.
32:39And when I saw there are European numbers, I was more afraid.
32:43So when the police saw that, he accompanied me to my friend's place
32:47and then he said to me, I have to change my place.
32:49So I was hiding and I was staying in someone's place, you know, for a time.
32:54And even one of the member of the Taliban, he announced in X, in Twitter,
33:03he said that if someone can attack her with knife, there is a price for that.
33:15Each time I post in my Instagram, like if you see the comments, it's all hate.
33:19Like each time they send me bad messages.
33:22Even sometimes they send messages to my friends and they treat my family.
33:28Also, they published the photo of my mother
33:31and they were treating me, you know, like, OK, you have to shut your mouth.
33:34One of them, they stop my father in the street and he say that
33:39you're not ashamed as an Afghan Muslim man,
33:41that your your daughter is talking like this and living like this.
33:45But my father, he's more crazy than me.
33:47So he said she's right.
33:49Terrorist is terrorist.
33:50So she's talking about the truth.
33:52But yes, they they stopped my father
33:54and they were sending many messages to my sisters and my sisters at the same time.
33:58I mean, my family, they're really proud of my fight.
34:00They support me, but they were so angry
34:03that they are also in danger because of me.
34:05They said it's because of you.
34:07Like, I have to stay at home.
34:09I have to be like this.
34:10I have to be like this.
34:11And I was like, I know, but you cannot live like this also.
34:14You know, to stay silent and to let them do what they want.
34:17So it was the beginning.
34:19It was very, very difficult.
34:21And for six, seven months, I was in a survival mood,
34:26like I was fighting, fighting, fighting.
34:29And then I start having anxiety and then I start having panic attacks.
34:33And all of this started because of the threats,
34:38because my life totally changed my lifestyle.
34:40I don't live the way I want as a young girl.
34:44And I have to be always with bodyguard.
34:48I have to even like walking the street for me alone is not possible.
34:51I have to be with bodyguard when I'm going to training.
34:54Like my I mean, I I'm grateful for the protection that I have.
34:59And I'm happy that they are protecting me.
35:02But in this young age, I feel it's too much for me.
35:06And I just want to live free and go crazy life.
35:11But I can't.
35:12And most of the time I have to be at home.
35:16Like my lifestyle is not the same like my other friends.
35:20So it's difficult.
35:22And I can't trust people easily now, like many things change in my life.
35:27Sometimes when I'm going when I want to sleep, I start freaking, oh, my God,
35:32if they if they enter in my house, what will happen?
35:36You know, it's been one year, but they don't stop.
35:39And it's more challenging to to continue the fight.
35:43But but I'm not regret of what I did and what I'm doing.
35:46But it's very difficult.
35:53Even we are out of Afghanistan, we are fighting for them.
35:56And we are trying our best to to raise awareness and to to push international community
36:04to recognize gender apartheid as a crime and to to just be their voice,
36:10because I don't have a power.
36:12So the only power I have is just to be their voice.
36:15So I just want to tell them that they are not alone and they are they are strong.
36:20And there are many people out of Afghanistan that they are fighting for them.
36:25And they are real heroes.
36:27And one day they will be free.
36:29And this freedom will come from our own fighting.
36:35And the freedom is nobody can give us freedom.
36:39It's us who is giving ourselves freedom.
36:42So we have to continue the fight.
36:46Even though it's difficult, it's risky.
36:48But unfortunately, this is the the cause of freedom.
36:53You have to fight and just to to suffer.
36:58So I just want to tell them stay strong.
37:00And one day, our day will come.
37:11I really don't suffer only for Afghanistani women.
37:14I suffer also for women in Sudan, in Congo, all around the world that they are suffering.
37:20You know, so it's about humanity.
37:24We can teach what is human rights, woman rights, you know, but we cannot teach humanity
37:32because this is coming from heart.
37:34I think the most important is to not recognize Taliban and to recognize gender apartheid as a crime.
37:49Because if we recognize gender apartheid as a crime, this will be a big punishment against Taliban.
37:55And it will be very difficult for them to fit in the international community.
37:59And for the women, I think they can help them by online education.
38:07And because, for example, I'm not really a fan of opening schools in Afghanistan,
38:13because there will be madrasas and they will brainwash people to become terrorists.
38:19So it's better to the schools stay closed.
38:21But we can give them education through websites, you know, online education to teach them things online.
38:36This is better, at least, you know, they're going to learn good things, not bad things.
38:40And to be their voice and to stop normalizing Taliban.
38:48I see some influencers that are going to Afghanistan.
38:52They are normalizing the situation.
38:55This is not fair.
38:56Because, of course, for someone who has a French passport or British passport,
39:02of course, you are safe when you're in Afghanistan with Taliban.
39:05Because they are not going to kill you.
39:08They need you to normalize them.
39:10So stop normalizing Taliban, because by normalizing Taliban, the world will stay more silent.
39:17They are already silent about what is going on.
39:21When people see that, they're like, oh, it's not really bad there, the situation.
39:26It's not really what they said about it.
39:29So it's, again, another punishment to our fight.
39:32It's not someone like me who is suffering from lack of freedom and safety in Paris,
39:37simply because I speak about the situation.
39:40And by normalizing Taliban, they are normalizing gender apartheid in Afghanistan.
39:47So I think France can be the first country to recognize gender apartheid as a crime.
39:53And to support young girls in Afghanistan through online education.
40:00And to help them, some of them, to get a scholarship, you know, to help them.
40:08You know, we cannot, of course, help all of the women to leave the country,
40:13but we can help some of them.
40:14And we can also give platforms to young girls who are out of the country
40:22and they are fighting for women's rights.
40:23To give them platforms and to let them to raise their voice.
40:28Because we don't talk about what is going on in Afghanistan.
40:32We forget what is going on in Afghanistan.
40:39It's a dream since I started to become an Olympic champion.
40:44And now it's more than that.
40:48It's a political fight for me.
40:50And I want to be present at the Olympic Games.
40:53I want to fight and win and to show that they cannot erase women.
40:58Because they wanted to kill me in France.
41:01They wanted to rape me.
41:03They wanted to make me silent, you know, to stop talking about the truth.
41:09But I want to show them that they couldn't.
41:12They failed and I'm here and I'm competing and I'm achieving one of my dreams.
41:17So for me, it's a political fight against injustice, against gender apartheid.
41:24And to be a light for other girls, you know, to give them this courage.
41:33They're to dream and they're to fight, you know, and I am like, I am one of them.
41:40The difference is just I'm in France.
41:42But there are many like me that are in Afghanistan and they are dreaming to become someone.
41:47So for me, it's just to show the power of an Afghanistani woman.
41:56I'm just one of them.
41:57So for me, it's very important to be part of the Olympics.
42:01Even though it's very difficult and challenging.
42:03And I'm proud that I really understand, I really know what is freedom.
42:09I really know what is women's rights.
42:12And I'm proud of what I'm fighting.
42:15I believe it deep in heart.
42:17So I'm not acting or just talking something that I don't know about it.
42:23I'm proud of I'm talking from my heart and the pain that is coming from my heart.
42:29So if I'm in a class, if I'm in a team, if I'm with a friend or even if I'm walking the street
42:37when I see injustice, I don't feel comfortable.
42:39I'm proud of that, that I'm still a human being and I still have a heart.
42:44And I think of every people who is suffering from injustice and violence.
42:50So this is my book.
42:59They cannot have my silence because they wanted to silence me.
43:03So we decided to name this book.
43:06They cannot have my silence.
43:08And as you see the photo, there is half of me with the hijab.
43:13This is a part of me that they wanted me to be like this,
43:19but I didn't want this.
43:21So I am like this now because this is the real Marzia.
43:25Since I was a kid, I was against this part of Marzia that they were forcing me.
43:31And this is real part of me that I want to be free and to live the way I want and to express myself.
43:40And it's about my journey.
43:45It's about my life in Iran, in Afghanistan, about my sport life, about my political fight,
43:52about what I want and about everything that I have been through in life.
43:58And about the threats that started in Paris, because I left Afghanistan to be safe and free.
44:08But I faced the same problem here again.
44:12I faced the same people.
44:14So I wanted to turn all of this into a book.
44:19And I wanted to share my story with people to read about me and to know me more.
44:24And to feel more connected with me, with real Marzia.
44:28So in this book, you can see the whole Marzia.
44:32I want to say to Marzia,
44:35Bravo for not giving up and to be smart about the situation.
44:40Because people like we saw like, OK, women are not in the streets, the schools are closed.
44:51But we didn't talk about the mental health of them, how they are suffering emotionally.
45:00Some of them killed themselves because they just didn't want to live with the Taliban.
45:04I didn't live what they live, but I really feel it deeply, you know.
45:10And I just want to say, Bravo for being a fighter and to be a good girl and to listen to your heart.
45:23Because I listen to my heart and I follow my heart.
45:26So I just want to say to Marzia, Bravo for my courage and
45:34to be a crazy girl.
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