A demonstration at the call of feminists in Nantes to denounce the appointment of Gérald Darmanin to the Ministry of the Interior - LOIC VENANCE / AFP

Denouncing "the culture of rape En Marche", several thousand demonstrators protested Friday in Paris and in several cities in France against the presence in government of Gérald Darmanin, accused of rape, and Eric Dupond-Moretti, very critical of the #MeToo movement.

“We are here to demand the resignation of part of the government. When I learned of these appointments, I cried because I myself was the victim of rape, for myself as for all the victims, it is an insult, "affirmed in the crowd gathered in front of the Courthouse from Toulouse Anouck Lagarrige, a 22-year-old employee in the culture sector. "Gender equality was supposed to be a major quinquennium, it is completely buried," she laments in the midst of about 300 people.

"Rapists in prison, not in government"

"Welcome to the ministry of rape", "Rapists in prison, not in government", "An interior rapist, an accomplice to justice" in Toulouse, "We get up and we fight", "Shame reshuffle "," Stop impunity ", in Lille," The anger of women rumbles "in Paris," a rapist in the Interior, let's take the secateurs "in Saint-Etienne: the brandished panels left no doubt about the indignation of the demonstrators, mainly women.

"The presumption of innocence, it is easily brandished when it affects heterosexual white men, if tomorrow some of us were to admit to being accused of rape during a job interview, I doubt that he would have the job, ”notes Alain Ranaivonjatovo, a 26-year-old employee who also demonstrated in Toulouse. "For months, everyone has been trying to make things happen and there it is getting worse and worse, our Minister of the Interior is accused of rape, it's crazy ...", denounces Lara, who was among about 200 demonstrators in Lille a sign: "All the dinosaurs must disappear".

"A spit in the mouth of all the victims"

The demonstrators were around a thousand gathered on the forecourt of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, also at the call of the feminist collective #NousToutes. "The appointment of Darmanin is a spit in the mouth of all the victims," ​​said Nollaïg, a 24-year-old student, met in Paris. "This kind of gathering will wake people up," she hopes.

While the demonstrators chanted "shame! Shame! "And sang" the great cause of the quinquennium and the Grenelle, it was blabla ", the feminist activist Caroline de Haas on her side assured that" we do not wait for the resignation (of the government), we no longer wait nothing ". On the colonnade closing the access to the City Hall of Bordeaux, where the demonstrators were 600 according to the prefecture, a large black banner had been stretched, on which was written in fluorescent green "power", followed by a circle on a cross, the symbolic sign of the woman.

"RIP the great cause of the quinquennium"

Seven hundred people also demonstrated in Nantes according to the prefecture. In Lyon, where there were 500 according to the police, Fred, 54, "thought that the government was going to pay attention to the requests concerning the budget that he could have put on the table for women's rights", however, she regrets " This is not the case ".

In Grenoble, a black coffin, on which was written "RIP the great cause of the quinquennium", Equality Women-men, was symbolically placed around 6:00 p.m. in front of the entrance to the Palace of Justice.

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