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▲ French actors Juliette Binoche (left) and Marion Cotillard (right) cutting hair


As anti-government protests over the questionable death of a woman 'not wearing a hijab' in Iran are spreading, European actors and politicians have also gone out in solidarity with their shaved hair.



French actress Marion Cotillard, who won the Academy Award for 'La Vien Rose', posted a video on her Instagram on the 5th (local time) of herself cutting a bunch of her own hair.



The video also showed Cotillard, as well as other French stars, including Julie-Étt Binoche, cutting his hair with their own hands.



Binoche said 'For freedom' in English while shearing, and in a Cotillardo post, "For the brave women and men of Iran who are changing the world right now. We are with you." He showed solidarity.



Actor Charlotte Gainsbourg was filmed cutting the hair of her mother, British singer Jane Birkin.



Anti-government protests have erupted in Iran after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman arrested for not wearing her hijab properly.



In particular, many women have joined forces by cutting their hair at protest sites or online videos.



In Iran, there is an old custom of a woman cutting her hair as a sign of mourning or resistance.



In addition, a video of a man's sister who died during a recent protest crying at a funeral and cutting her hair and sprinkling it over a coffin is spreading.



"Women cutting their hair in Iran is a symbol of resistance to hijab obligations," Dorna Javan, a French-based Iranian political scientist, told the Associated Press. method,” he said.



The day before, Avir al-Salani, a Swedish European Parliament member from Iraq, cut her hair while speaking on the podium of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.



"We will stand together until Iranian women are free," al-Salani said.



He then cut off his hair, saying "women · life · freedom" in Kurdish.



In Rome, Italy, hundreds of people gathered on the Campidoglio Hill on the same day, chanting "Women, Life and Freedom" to show their support for Iranian protesters.



The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAXXI) in Rome is collecting hair from visitors to send to the Iranian embassy in Italy.



(Photo = Cotillard Instagram video capture, Yonhap News)