"We buried the great cause of the quinquennium, gender equality." As announced, several feminist rallies took place this Friday in several cities in France against the appointments of Gérald Darmanin, accused of rape, at the Ministry of the Interior, and Éric Dupond-Moretti, very critical of the #MeToo movement, to Justice. This is particularly the case in Lille, where a hundred people had already mobilized Tuesday evening on the Place de la République to denounce the "shame reshuffle".
Many of us at the Paris rally against the ministers of shame! # RemaniementDeLaHonte # cultureduviolpic.twitter.com / 4cY4ul7pi6
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But this Friday, it was on the Grand-Place that the demonstrators gathered to demand the "resignation" of the two ministers. A static gathering in peace, just in front of the Théâtre du Nord, with speeches in front of a hundred activists, all dressed in black from head to toe. "Today, we are in mourning. We have buried the great cause of the quinquennium, namely equality between women and men," said a protester at the microphone of Europe 1.
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"This is a bad signal sent to us by the President of the Republic"
A little further, Betty, from Valenciennes, is angry after what she describes as "shame reworking". "This is a bad signal sent to us by the President of the Republic. We have a Minister of the Interior who is under investigation for rape and a Minister of Justice who made a lot of misogynist remarks We are therefore worried about the policy that will be taken with regard to gender equality and violence [against women]. "
In Paris, the demonstration held in front of the Hôtel de Ville gathered several thousand people at the call of the feminist collective #NousToutes.
# Darmanin # RemaniementDeLaHonte # reshuffle # DupondMorreti
The demonstrators gathered in front of the city hall of Paris are perhaps double that at the beginning, approximately 4000 to 5000 pic.twitter.com/tG0BB79dpq
"The appointment of Darmanin is a spit in the mouth of all the victims," said Nollaïg, a 24-year-old student, met in Paris. "This kind of gathering will wake people up," she hopes. While the protesters chanted "shame! Shame!" and sang "the great cause of the quinquennium and the Grenelle was blah", the feminist activist Caroline de Haas assured that "we do not wait for the resignation (of the government), we no longer wait nothing".
600 activists in Bordeaux, 700 in Nantes
On the colonnade closing the access to the City Hall of Bordeaux, where the demonstrators were 600 according to the prefecture, a large black banner had been stretched, on which was written in fluorescent green "power", followed by a circle on a cross, the symbolic sign of the woman. Seven hundred people also demonstrated in Nantes according to the prefecture. In Grenoble, a black coffin, on which was inscribed "RIP the great cause of the quinquennium", Equality Women-men, was symbolically placed around 6pm in front of the entrance to the Palace of Justice.
Tuesday, for his first day at the Interior, Gérald Darmanin had already had to face the anger of feminists, some of whom tried to disrupt the transfer of power with his predecessor, Christophe Castaner. Chanting "Darmanin resignation" and "Darmanin rapist", they held up signs saying: "Darmanin inside, you are waking up to our complaints". For his part, the new Beauvau tenant said Thursday "have the right to the presumption of innocence".