Several thousand people demonstrated against gender-based, sexual and domestic violence.

France November 23, 2019. -

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1975. The “crime of passion” is removed from the penal code.

September 2020. After years of waiting by associations, the electronic anti-reconciliation bracelet is finally launched.

Between these two dates, 45 years of activism, legislative advances, initiatives on the ground and the fight against domestic violence.

While 146 women were still killed in France by their spouse or ex-companion last year, Brut, partner of "20 Minutes", retraces, over nearly half a century, the awareness of violence against women in French society.

But the fight is still far from won.

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