Tributes, and soon the pantheonization? After the death of feminist lawyer Gisèle Halimi, several petitions demand that she enter the Pantheon. This is the case in particular of a text launched this Thursday which collected in a few hours more than 1,000 signatures.
Launched by Louise Dubray, a psychologist who works for the association for the fight against violence against women Womensafe, the petition demands "a decent tribute to the one who has done so much for our country, for the cause of women, for that of homosexuals. them and against colonialism ”.
To contribute to parity
"An entry into the Pantheon, a way of honoring the heroines of the Fatherland, which it is, seems to us a sufficiently strong symbolic act to honor the memory of Gisèle Halimi at its true value", argues the petition, which regrets that the he symbolic homage of the President of the Republic was not "limited to a tweet" as well as "the empty chair" of the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti.
Another petition launched in July on petitions.fr argues that “to bury a sixth woman in the Pantheon among the seventy-five men who rest there, it is also to contribute largely to parity in the memorial policy of France”. It has collected more than 700 signatures. A Franco-Tunisian association also made the same request in a letter addressed to Emmanuel Macron and unveiled by AFP in mid-August.
After Simone Veil
Located in the heart of Paris, the Panthéon welcomes the heroes and heroines of French history. The last woman to enter was Simone Veil in 2018.
Born in La Goulette, near Tunis, Gisèle Halimi, tireless fighter for the cause of women and the right to abortion and figure of the anti-colonial cause, died on July 28 in Paris, at the age of 93 .
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