“Bar bosses, do we really need to attack your wallets to make our voice heard?

Like Maité, one of the organizers of the “Balance your bar” movement, several hundred people gathered in Brussels on Friday evening at the initiative of Ufia, the self-managed inclusive feminist union.

This feminist collective called for an evening of boycott of bars and nightclubs, accusing this sector of inaction in the face of sexual assault.

Ufia wrote to the mayors of the Brussels region.

He demands in particular that the authorities can “identify, file and systematically sanction problematic establishments and staff members” as soon as a report of sexual violence is provided to them.

"There are enough of the bar bosses who say 'We didn't know'"

The movement was triggered in Belgium after the revelation of several cases of assaults on women in bars in a student district in Brussels. Some women suspect their alleged abuser, bartender or staff member, of unwittingly drugging them before taking action. "The bars to whom? Our bars ”,“ Victim, we believe you! Rapist, we see you! Chanted the demonstrators, mostly women, who carried placards calling for "the death knell for patriarchy". "There are enough of the bosses of the bars who say 'We did not know'," denounced for her part the French feminist activist Anna Toumazoff, present at the rally. "We are strong, we are proud, and feminists, and radical, and angry", also sang the crowd between two public interventions.

The most complete impunity.

This is what women go through.


Thank you for your testimony 🤍 # balancetonbar pic.twitter.com/loU0DGOoTH

- Balance Ton Bar (@balance_ton_bar) November 2, 2021

“He didn't know it was wrong”


Ah.


Thank you for your testimony 🤍 # balancetonbar #jetecrois #ontecroit pic.twitter.com/UoNMiOYmhK

- Balance Ton Bar (@balance_ton_bar) November 12, 2021

Several victims took the floor to recount their assault.

While Maïté, she congratulated herself on the "liberation of speech", faced with the wave of testimonies published on Instagram for a month, and the scale of the movement, which has spread in France, and also affects the UK.

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Paris: A call to boycott bars in support of young girls drugged at GHB

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