The event, at the call of the feminist collective #NousToutes, took off from the Place de l'Opéra towards the Nation, in Paris. Last year, at the end of November, nearly 50,000 people had gathered in all of France including 30,000 in Paris according to the organizers.

Thousands of people, women and men, began to parade Saturday in Paris to say "stop" to sexual and sexual violence and feminicide, two days from the end of the "Grenelle" against this scourge.

A march in Paris, but also in regions

The event, at the call of the feminist collective #NousToutes, started from the Place de l'Opéra towards the Nation. Behind the leading banner held by the National Union of Feminicide Families (UNFF), several people were carrying placards displaying the photo of their murdered close. Since the beginning of 2019, at least 116 women have been killed by their spouse or former spouse. Throughout 2018, the figure reached 121 female victims, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

In regions, about thirty marches were announced Saturday, including Lille, Bordeaux, Rennes, Strasbourg, but also in Saint-Etienne, or Toulouse where they were several hundreds to demonstrate in the early afternoon.

It's purple of the world everywhere !!!! Congratulations #WeAll! Tens of thousands of women and men against violence against women pic.twitter.com/NZnZcyQ0Tt

- Anne-Cécile Mailfert (@AnneCMailfert) November 23, 2019

All generations are here! pic.twitter.com/5WdEVJzE9y

- #WeAllAll (@NousAllOrg) November 23, 2019

A "lack of response to the height from the government"

Last year, at the end of November, nearly 50,000 people gathered in all of France including 30,000 in Paris according to the organizers, the police having counted on its side 12,000 demonstrators in the capital. "We think it's going to be a historic march," one of the organizers, Caroline De Haas, declared before the Paris demonstration that "the level of conscience (...) on the issue of violence is changing. in a rather radical way ". The feminist activist, however, pointed to a "lack of means" and a "lack of response to the height of the government".

This mobilization comes just before the closing on Monday of the "Grenelle against domestic violence", launched in early September to try to stop this scourge. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, accompanied by a dozen members of the government, must announce forty measures.