In the name of the 103 victims of feminicides, the activists, dressed in black, a trace of blood red hand on the face, lie down on the ground. A white line is drawn around them, as if they were bodies. The name of Lily is mentioned, this 32-year-old woman shot dead by her ex-companion in Gratentour in Haute-Garonne last May.
The subject is better known today, but each year the report is alarming: more than one hundred women are killed. So we must continue to campaign for Alexa: “We are in the 21st century and it still doesn’t change, speech is freed up but it’s not enough, it’s really in morals that it has to change.”
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Shannon Marini
two billion euros
We all ask two billion euros in the government, financing is the sinews of war for Aline. “More money is needed for the centers that house women, she explains. Budgets are cut every year, we are promised things but we don’t respect them. We must also train the people who receive our complaints.”_ Improving the legal process is what often comes up: 65% of victims of feminicide or domestic violence had taken legal action or the police, according to the report of the Ministry of Justice published in 2019.
A demonstration against patriarchal violence will take place on November 19 in Toulouse.