They chanted the slogans “Join the first feminist revolution!”, “Mahsa Amini, your name made the tyranny of the ayatollahs tremble”, or even “Death to the Islamic Republic”, “Death to the dictator”.
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Thousands of people marched in Paris on Sunday October 2 to condemn the repression in Iran of the demonstrations triggered by the death of the young Mahsa Amini, arrested by the morality police.
Like their counterparts in Los Angeles and Toronto, also high places of the Iranian diaspora, the activists marched from Place de la République to Place de la Nation, the traditional route of major Parisian movements.
Protesters chanted slogans “Join the first feminist revolution!” and “Mahsa Amini, your name has shaken the tyranny of the ayatollahs”despite some heavy downpours. “Death to the Islamic Republic”, “Death to the Dictator” and “Woman. Life. Freedom”the code of demonstrations in Iran, were also heard.
“Woman, life, freedom! The slogan taken up in unison by the demonstrators in support of women’s rights in #Iran in Paris. pic.twitter.com/pkWMBUJ4j8
— Pierre-Louis Caron (@pierloucaron) October 2, 2022
Left-wing personalities including the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, the ecologist deputy Sandrine Rousseau and the LFI (radical left) MEP Manon Aubry took the floor, covered by whistles from an Iranian diaspora known for its political diversity.
The demonstrators also protested when the recent meeting in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, between French President Emmanuel Macron and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raïssi was mentioned.
“The French government flirts with the Mullahs while the Mullahs kill the women”denounced a slogan next to a photo of the two men shaking hands.