On 6 January 2024, a 26-year-old woman entered the spa of the Ritz Paris for a massage. There is perhaps no setting that better embodies the promise of safety than a palace spa where everything is designed to reassure. The silence, the subdued lighting, the immaculate linen, the carefully choreographed welcome, the reputation of the establishment itself. A guest does not enter such a place expecting to remain vigilant : she enters precisely because she believes she can let go