The members of the collective staged a “feminicide cemetery” on the Place du Panthéon in Paris, Sunday.
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A “feminicide graveyard” installed in the Place du Panthéon in Paris. The #NousToutes collective mobilized on Sunday, October 9, to denounce the 101st feminicide of the year in France. All dressed in black, with a purple veil over their faces as a sign of mourning, 101 women each raised, in silence, a sign on which was inscribed the first name and age of each victim. On other signs, placed on the ground in the middle of these women, one could read “We want to be alive“, or “To love does not mean to kill”.
“It’s October 9, and 101 women have been murdered by a man because they were women, we don’t want to count our deaths anymore”declared in front of the press Yuna Miralles, of the association #NousToutes, for whom “the government is not doing enough”. “We are urgently asking for places in emergency accommodation which women and their children need to take shelter or even 213,000 serious danger telephones, which correspond to the number of women in danger”she listed.
The collective calls on the government to“invest two billion euros” every year to fight against violence against women, and thus “ensure that the tools already available are reinforced and correctly implemented”. He called on Sunday to demonstrate in the street on November 19 for the eradication of gender-based and sexual violence, while the number of feminicides increased by 20% in France in 2021 compared to the previous year, according to a report published at the end of August by the Ministry of the Interior.