Five years after #MeToo, nearly 90 associations, unions and parties parade on Saturday, upstream of World Day for the elimination of violence against women.
Mo12345lemonde with AFP
Tens of thousands of people are expected on Saturday, November 19, in Paris and throughout France to denounce the dysfunctions of justice in the fight against sexist and sexual violence.
In Paris, the procession will leave at 2 p.m. from the Place de la République and will join that of the nation. Demonstrations are also planned in Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, Lille, Strasbourg, Rennes, Nancy or Dijon. In 2021, the mobilization, organized upstream of November 25, a World Day for the elimination of violence against women, had gathered 50,000 people in Paris according to the organizers (18,000 according to the police prefecture).
More than five years after the emergence of the #MeToo movement, nearly 90 associations, unions or left parties call for a “tidal wave in the street to shout [their] anger” against “impunity “Attresses and the bad reception of women’s words in police stations, courts or in political parties.
a” framework law “against impunity
“We keep repeating to us that justice must do their job, but what work? We cannot blame the victim for not filing a complaint if he knows that it will not lead anywhere,” said ‘Agence France-Presse Maëlle Noir, member of #noustoutes who coordinates the organization of the parades. Associations claim a public budget of 2 billion euros per year, but also a “framework law” which would establish “brigades and specialized jurisdictions”, financial assistance for the “safety” of women victims, 15,000 places additional accommodation or even the strengthening of education in sex and emotional life in school.
Questioned about these claims, the Minister responsible for equality between women and men, Isabelle Rome, recalled that she was open to the establishment of a specialized police and justice. A parliamentary mission must put its conclusions to the government in a few months for a “more reactive and efficient justice”, she stressed on Saturday on RMC . As for the financial means, “they have continued to increase”, to reach “a total amount of 2.4 billion” euros “when we add the sums put by each ministry”, observed the minister, who Recognized that these sums are “not specifically” intended for the fight against violence, but include larger fields, such as education and “economic equality”.
hundred feminicides since early 2022
The anger of feminist organizations remains fueled by the high number of feminicides – already 100 since the beginning of the year after a collective associative, against 122 last year according to official figures.
The facts denounced are more and more numerous: between 2017 and 2021, the number of rapes or attempted rapes recorded by the Ministry of the Interior doubled, going from 16,900 to 34,300. The victims have more Trend to denounce ancient facts, explains the ministry, which also sees it as the sign of the “liberation of speech”.
In the world of work too, the fight against gender -based violence is progressing too slowly, noted the main French unions in a letter addressed to the Prime Minister on Thursday. Prevention policies are still insufficient, and when a problematic case is reported “instead of suspending, then sanctioning the employee questioned, we often continue to move, discredit, or even closet or dismiss the victim”, deplore the Signatories.