Since 2012, Lyonnaises from the association Tous en moto have paraded every Women's Rights Day to raise funds.
After a 2021 edition canceled due to covid, the environmental town hall of Lyon opposed the holding of their parade this year, due to pollution.
All on a motorcycle will parade despite everything this Sunday, place Jean-Jaurès at 1 p.m., to promote women's rights in conviviality.
“The parade will be held on Sunday!
“promises All on a motorcycle.
Making the bikes roar for a good cause is the driving force behind this national association whose Lyon branch is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
On the occasion of Women's Rights Day, passionate bikers offer a parade and stands to raise funds, donated "to an association that helps women who are victims of precariousness or domestic violence", explains Céline Quintin, treasurer and assistant secretary of Tous en moto in Lyon.
“We have always opted to celebrate this Day in a friendly, not vindictive way, by offering a meeting place in the world of bikers, which is very masculine, to shake things up a bit in a good mood.
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The association deplores the incomprehension of the town hall
However, this year, the town hall of Lyon told them that their motorcycles, which pollute too much, would not be welcome in Place Jean-Jaurès, this Sunday.
This is not the first time that they have been put in the way: in 2021, they were unable to parade due to health restrictions.
“A little reluctantly, we then decided to send a declaration to the prefecture to allow us to maintain the parade, but without stands”, recalls Céline Quintin.
The recent veto of the town hall saddens the association, which deplores "a misunderstanding of the causes we defend and our methods of action".
This decision is perceived by them "as purely symbolic, since the town hall indicated that what bothered it was the pollution caused by the static parking place Jean-Jaurès" adds the treasurer of All on a motorcycle.
“It is wrong to think like this, since this place is occupied by pits, with motorcycles which arrive in dribs and drabs around the event.
In addition, "the town hall knew very well that we were going to be able to march anyway, by means of the declaration of the prefecture, which could only prohibit us from a demonstration for disturbing public order", remarks- she.
The parade will be held despite everything to move the lines
Les Lyonnaises de Tous en moto are all the more sorry for this opposition as they “are not there to play politics, nor to criticize the one put in place at the town hall of Lyon.
What we see is that we won't have the stands that would have allowed us to collect donations for the actions we want to carry out”.
They also regret the loss of “this moment of conviviality and exchange in the presence of male and female bikers, which is nevertheless essential, these are times that allow us to discuss this kind of subject.
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The parade, which will leave as planned place Jean-Jaurès at 1 p.m. this Sunday, will last between an hour and an hour and a half.
And too bad for the City's reservations, "given the values we defend, the importance of the fight for women's rights, against violence against women, our desire to move the lines in the motorcycle world", concludes Céline Quintin.
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