Sandrine Rousseau forms a feminist symbol with her hands during discussions at the National Assembly

MP EELV thus responded to an intervention by her colleague Aurore Bergé on domestic violence. This alluded, without mentioning it, to the deputy LFI Adrien Quatennens, who publicly admitted having slapped his wife.

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A meaningful gesture. During discussions on domestic violence in the National Assembly on Tuesday, October 4, the ecologist deputy Sandrine Rousseau reacted silently by forming a triangle with her hands, a symbol often used by feminists in demonstrations. The ecologist deputy responded to the intervention of the deputy Aurore Bergé (Renaissance), denouncing domestic violence by pointing, in a barely veiled allusion, the deputy LFI Adrien Quatennens.

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“The rag is burning and respect for women does not suffer from the political postures of a political group incapable of putting 1 billion on the table for the fight against violence and to give the means to justice”explained Sandrine Rousseau on Twitter. “This symbol is used in ‘feminist protests’then detailed the MP to BFMTV, also judging that “Damien Abad must resign”. The former Minister of Solidarity, accused of rape or attempted rape by three women, retained his post as deputy for Ain.

According to the magazine She, the gesture made by Sandrine Rousseau appeared in 1972 and was regularly seen at rallies for the right to abortion. It would have been used for the first time by the Italian feminist activist Giovanna Pala, still according to the magazine, to echo the front page of the feminist newspaper The Torchon burns.


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