Yasmina Kattou, edited by Gauthier Delomez 8:04 p.m., November 20, 2021

Gatherings were held in several major cities in France on Saturday to denounce sexual and gender-based violence.

In Paris, around 50,000 people marched, according to organizers.

In the procession, many young demonstrators took to the streets to defend women's rights.

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A wind of youth has blown over the Parisian demonstration.

Between the places of the Republic and the Nation in Paris, at the initiative of the collective Nous tous, nearly 50,000 people, according to the organizers, marched to show their fed up with sexual and gender-based violence.

Among these thousands of women's rights defenders, many young demonstrators were present.

Europe 1 went there.

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"Tired of counting women who have died because of feminicides", protests Lilas, 15 years old

Not even 20 years old, and already in the street.

Youthful face, Lilas holds up her purple sign in the color of the movement on which we can read "Ras le rap".

Among the thousands of demonstrators, the 15-year-old girl chants the various slogans with her throat open, a first experience for her.

"It's good to start early because we are a generation and we have to bring something new", she explains to the microphone of Europe 1. "There are tired of counting women dead because of feminicides We want to fight for equality. It's important to be there, "continues the young girl.

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An awareness that pushes to demonstrate

Such an important cause for Lucie, freshly arrived in Paris to study. At 18, she can no longer stand street harassment. “I was on an internship in Paris, and I saw a man masturbate twice in front of me,” she says. “It really happens every day, but it seems so shocking that we don't believe it,” says Lucie.

At her side, Marine, 19, explains that it was an awareness that pushed her to walk on Saturday.

"We realize to what extent, in our entourage, there were women who suffered assault, rape. We did not realize how inevitable it is. It is a kind of observation. we have to live with ", underlines the young woman on Europe 1. As long as nothing changes, Marine repeats it, she will continue to demonstrate for the end of sexist and sexual violence.