Demonstrations took place this Saturday in Paris and in several dozen French cities at the call of the collective #NousToutes to fight against gender-based and sexual violence.
In the procession, demonstrators believe that "nothing has changed" since the previous demonstration in 2019.
They demand better education against this violence.
" Nothing has changed. There are still so many dead. These words, chilling, it is Héloïse who pronounces them. She came to demonstrate this Saturday in Paris with three friends, at the call of the #NousToutes collective and about sixty associations. The goal? Fight against sexual and gender-based violence. A previous demonstration had gathered 100,000 people two years ago according to #NousToutes, 35,000 according to the police.
101 feminicides have already taken place since the beginning of the year, as the artist Karine Branger recalls at
20 Minutes
.
With 100 other people, she paraded in Paris dressed in a white jumpsuit and a mask, to represent these 101 women victims of violence by their spouse or their ex-companion.
His group made a strong impression, in the procession of several thousand people.
“The white jumpsuit makes us anonymous and universal,” emphasizes the artist.
50,000 people marched this Saturday in the capital according to the organizers, 18,000 according to the police.
It is half less than two years ago.
"Auntie, today I'm walking for you"
Julia, a 26-year-old Parisian, also has the feeling that the situation of women has not changed since the last demonstration in 2019. "The health crisis has only worsened the violence", she confides , carrying a sign on which she wrote "Auntie, today I walk for you". The assailant of his aunt, victim of domestic violence, "was sentenced to accompanying measures", but not to a harsher sentence. He wears an alienation bracelet, "but that's not what protects her," she regrets.
In the countryside, the situation of women is hardly better, warns Camille Estournes, an elected official from La Réole, a small rural town in Bordeaux, who came to demonstrate in Paris.
“One in two femicide in the countryside,” can be read on his sign.
She lists the many obstacles encountered by women in her territory: "We do not have forensic medicine branches [it is forensic doctors who observe sexual violence], there are no social workers in the gendarmeries.
The distance can make these devices inaccessible to some women, little or no mobile.
The #NousToutes event starts from Place de la République in Paris.
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"The political will and the means are lacking"
The #NousToutes collective is asking “the next government” for a billion euros “to finance public policies that affect the entire population”. Society "is ready to set in motion against violence", notes #NousToutes. “The political will and the means are missing. In the procession, several demonstrators demand that a real education in this violence and consent be put in place. “At school, that's where it all begins, where we can instill values in young people,” say Lola and Louisiana, friends of Heloise.
The government, for its part, defends its record, with in particular the opening of accommodation places or the installation of anti-reconciliation bracelets and serious danger telephones.
Measures deemed insufficient in the procession, where we regularly heard "Darmanin resignation".
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