Paris and several other major cities of France should host "tides violets" - color of feminist struggles - Saturday, November 23. At the call of the collective #NousToutes, several marches to say "stop" to sexual and sexual violence and feminicide were organized two days before the end of the "Grenelle" launched against this scourge.

Thousands of people are expected. In Paris, the event will start at 14 hours from the Place de l'Opera towards the Nation. At the head of the procession, the National Union of Families of Femicide (UNFF) parade to "denounce contempt that the state opposes families," according to President Sandrine Bouchent.

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Also in the province, some thirty marches are planned, including Lille, Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Rennes or Strasbourg. But not in Lyon or Nantes, where activists - but also activists - have set up transport to swell the ranks of the Parisian mobilization.

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 Édouard Philippe, accompanied by a dozen members of the government, must announce measures eagerly awaited by the associations.

Since the beginning of 2019, at least 116 women have been killed by their spouses or former spouses, according to a count and a case-by-case study conducted by AFP. Throughout 2018, the figure reached 121 female victims, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

More than 200,000 victims of violence

Some 213,000 adult women are victims of physical and / or sexual violence each year by their spouses or former spouses, or nearly 1% of women aged 18 to 75, according to official data.

Last year, nearly 50,000 people gathered in all of France - including 30,000 in Paris according to the organizers, 12,000 according to the police - for this "violet" march, the color of feminist struggles. The event was then well away from the actions of "yellow vests", whose movement began to take shape.

This year, groups of "yellow vests", which include many women, also called to join the protest, calling for a "fairer, more equal, more humane society".

Nearly 70 organizations, political parties, unions and associations (Family Planning, CGT, CFDT, EELV, LFI, PS, Unef, PCF, SOS homophobia ...) and several personalities called to join the parade. Among them, the actresses Muriel Robin, Julie Gayet or Virginie Efira, the singer Juliette Armanet and Clara Luciani, or Vincent Trintignant - the brother of Marie, killed by Bertrand Cantat in 2003.

With AFP