Forty activists from the Femen feminist movement symbolically wanted to "clean the streets of Paris from the patriarchal virus" during a flash action on Place de la Concorde on Sunday for International Women's Rights Day. Shirtless covered in slogans, sporting coveralls, glasses and gloves in an allusion to health workers confronted with the new coronavirus, and placards and smoke bombs in hand, they denounced the "patriarchal pandemic" in force according to them in the world.
At the cries of "Vital emergency, patriarchal virus", "Move away, patriarchate virus" or even "Vital security, patriarchal virus", they cleaned with a liquid the sidewalk before being quickly dispersed by the police, found an AFP journalist. "It is considered that it is not the coronavirus which should frighten, but a patriarchal pandemic which rapes a woman every seven minutes, which murders a woman every 48 hours, which justifies discrimination and gender-based violence" declared to AFP Sophia Antoine, member of the movement.
"Rejecting gender-based violence"
"So, on this day of March 8, we decided to clean the streets of Paris of the harmful patriarchal virus and to repel gender-based violence, so that our sisters, when they take over public space, it is clean, disinfected, serene She added. Tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected later today in Paris and in ten other cities in France for International Women's Rights Day, activists wanting to make a point of convergence of "feminist dynamics".
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