Confessions of a chambermaid | M6 | 66 minutes

The similarity with the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair is troubling: this week, a chamber maid¾also Guinean at the Hyatt Hotel in Paris revealed that she had been sexually assaulted by a member of the Emir of Qatar’s family. Along with others who also reveal the trials and tribulations of these “little handmaidens” of the luxury hotels, she confides to our team. What is the daily life of these women, who are often paid the minimum legal wage and who rub shoulders with ever richer and not always well-bred¾clients, really like? How are such incidents managed? In Paris, only one luxury hotel out of 25 that were contacted agreed to open its doors on this taboo subject. A chambermaid of 32 lifts the veil on her daily routine and the bad conduct that the clients of these establishments allow themselves: vomit on the walls, ripped curtains, etc. Others, with their faces hidden, tell of misplaced gestures, even attempted rapes of which they have been victim. When the “customer is king” how do you react in a case of sexual assault? Simulated incidents teach the employees of these hotels how to defuse the situation without rubbing the client up the wrong way.