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Nearly 49,000 people demonstrated in the streets of Paris against violence against women on November 23, 2019. REUTERS / Christian Hartmann

Massive protesters, 49,000 of them in Paris, broke ground on Saturday (November 23rd) across France during a historic mobilization to say "stop" to the sexist and sexual violence and the feminicides whose number (116 at least since the beginning of the year) is generating unprecedented outrage in the country.

" Feminicides, not one more ", could you read on a sign in the procession of Paris, composed of women in majority but also of men, which gathered 49 000 people, according to a count realized by the firm Occurrence for a collective of media.

The collective #NousToutes, organizer, hailed " the biggest step in the history of France against sexual and sexual violence ", estimating to 150,000 people the number of demonstrators in the whole of France, including 100,000 to Paris. Last year, nearly 50,000 people gathered at the end of November, including 30,000 in Paris according to the organizers, the police having counted on its side 12,000 demonstrators in the capital.

116 women killed since the beginning of the year

Many protesters carried signs displaying the picture of their murdered loved one and a large banner raised against " accomplice justice ", while a multitude of placards proclaimed " Rape rape ", " Break the silence, not women "...

Since the beginning of 2019, at least 116 women have been killed by their spouse or former spouse , according to a count. The feminist group "Femicide by companions or ex" has counted 137 women killed in a conjugal environment since January 1st. Throughout 2018, the figure reached 121 female victims, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

" It's been too long since we are in an individual and collective denial ," said Cathy Augier, 53, interviewed in the Paris procession. " We are millions to have lived the same things. One day, a guy put his bare cock against me and no one intervened. There are so many horrible stories and women doing with it. But it must stop, "she added.

Closing of a vast consultation

This mobilization comes just before the close of Monday a large consultation on domestic violence, launched in early September to try to stop this scourge. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, accompanied by a dozen members of the government, must announce forty measures.

About thirty marches were also organized in the rest of France, especially in Toulouse, where the march gathered several hundred demonstrators.

(With AFP)