"One hundred and twenty-one murdered women, Macron must wake up!": Five "die-in", these events where people lie on the ground to simulate death, were organized in Paris Saturday afternoon at feminist call #WeAll to denounce feminicides.
"From mid-October, we reached the total number of victims last year", or 121 women, launched at the microphone Fatima Benomar, one of the members and organizers of one of five simultaneous events, Republic Square , where was also present Caroline De Haas, activist of the collective #NousToutes. The other four similar mobilizations were held in the places of the Nation, Bastille, Saint-Michel and Châtelet.
"We minimize the story, we make them feel guilty"
"Solutions exist, there is no inevitability," said Fatima Benomar, recalling that "victims often issue warning signals, call 115, 3919, complain, and are encouraged rather to file a handrail, we offer them a mediation with the violent spouse, we minimize the story, we make them feel guilty ".
Republic Square had gathered nearly 300 people, noted an AFP journalist. Among them, 121 women each carried a sheet with the name of one of the victims killed this year. First standing, they lay on the floor one after the other, as a sound file spreads fictional dialogues, inspired by real phone conversations, illustrating the "bad" reception of victims in the police stations.
The collective calls for a billion euros for the cause
"I would like to point out that my husband is hitting me and tonight, I am very afraid that something serious happens to me", could we hear a woman, in one of the dialogues. "What do you call 'he hits you'? Slaps? It's not blows," the fictitious policeman replies. After the "die-in", the women got up screaming "Not one more", then "121 women murdered, Macron, must wake up!".
The group, which claims a billion euros for this cause, calls for "a great march" against violence against women Saturday, November 23. It calls for, among other things, the financing of permanent media campaigns, the increase in the number of accommodations, the granting of more serious danger phones and protection orders, as well as firm instructions to the police stations.