"Since the beginning of the collages, 122 feminicides": the Parisian "colleuses" paid tribute Sunday evening to the women killed since birth a year ago of their movement, by forming with their first names a "memorial" in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. Perched on ladders under a covered passage in rue Bouvier, sheltered from a fine rain, more than a hundred splicers took turns for an hour and a half to line the walls with their names, painted in large letters black, noted an AFP journalist.
"We had goosebumps when we arrived," says Sarah Mesure, 21, who has been sticking since early January. "It's impressive to see so many girls reunited, and to realize both the road traveled by the splicers for a year, and the violence of all these feminicides, which testify to the inaction of the State", estimates- she does. For about fifty of them like Alix, 20, this is the first bonding operation: "We are not used to seeing women gathering in the street like that, it allows us to reclaim ourselves. public space, and to feel in our place, for once ".
At least 47 suspected feminicides have occurred since the start of 2020
Among the 122 names are 111 victims of conjugal feminicides, according to a count of the collective "Feminicides by companions or ex" since August 30, 2019, 10 sex workers and a 15-year-old girl of whom a repeat offender man confessed to the rape on Thursday and the murder in Nantes on August 20. The splicers were able to go to the end of the realization of their memorial, the police especially ensuring the respect of the wearing of the mask. After placing flowers in honor of the victims, they completed the operation by observing a minute of silence.
From a handful of activists in Paris, collages against feminicides and domestic violence have spread throughout France and in a dozen other countries, from Israel to Mexico. To date, at least 47 suspected feminicides have occurred since the start of 2020, according to an AFP count.