121 feminicides have occurred since the beginning of the year. To raise public awareness, activists stick posters in the streets.

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121 feminicides took place in 2018, according to the Interior Ministry. And this figure has already been reached in 2019, according to the count of associations. To alert public opinion on these feminicides, activists stick posters in several French cities. We followed them in Paris.

In a local student, Garance wrote this message with black paint on white sheets: "In 10 months, 121 women killed.That is as much as all the year 2018. Macron, you act when?" "We must stick this message quickly, it will soon be more relevant," says the young student who joined the movement last month. "I have already suffered violence," she says. "I'm only 20 years old and I have already suffered several times, rapes in this case.When I paint, I feel that it frees me from a weight, a word that I was refused when I was younger, it makes me feel good. "

"Visual message deliverers"

They are more than 400 to paste posters in Paris. "Every day, about twenty girls contact us on social networks [Instagram and Twitter]," says Camille Lextray, one of the organizers of these collages. And their messages are contagious. "There are more than 40 cities in France where these actions exist, and there are also some in Belgium, Turkey and Luxembourg".

After painting their slogans in capital letters, another team takes over and walks the streets of Paris. Meredith Trincat gives the latest instructions. "I remind you that what we do is forbidden, we risk a fine of 65 euros, so if ever the police arrive, the instructions are clear, we obey." Glue in hand, this 22-year-old student continues: "we will stick in places where we are particularly visible.If you do reflections, you do not answer especially.I like to say that the delivery of messages You do not need to talk, you read and understand, if you do not want to understand, it's your problem. "

They act fast. No question of hanging out too much each time. As they spread the message about the number of femicides, a police car passes several times. "I do not care, we continue," says Meredith. "That one, I want to finish it". Fifteen minutes later, the slogan is stuck on a wall in the fifth arrondissement of the capital. Miffed, Meredith calls for help: "It's a horror, in fact, you rarely have a count of 121 in your life, and here you see that there are 121 women who have have been killed since the beginning of the year.It is no longer possible.When do you act? There, we address Emmanuel Macron.But it is also you.This must touch all of us.