Tens of thousands of demonstrators worked for women's rights – Liberation
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday in Paris and elsewhere in France for International Women's Rights Day. The feminist strike collective, which organized the demonstrations, claimed 120,000 participants in Paris and a total of 250,000 in France.
The prefecture of police announced 47,000 demonstrators in Paris, almost double last year. 9,300 people were identified in Lyon, 7,500 in Toulouse, 6,000 in Lyon, 5,000 in Rennes, according to the prefectures. In total, around fifty associations, organizations and unions had called for the organization of 150 rallies throughout France.
Persistent wage inequalities, protection of abortion, fights against the rise of « masculinist » speeches embodied by the accession to power of a Donald Trump propelled by a gendered vote … The reasons to parade were multiple in a procession which was quiet in the capital, with the exception of some clashes in the tail of demonstration.
The Parisian procession was marked by an action by femen activists who, painted from American, European or Russian flags barred with a swastika, made Nazi greetings, shouting « Heil Trump », « Heil meloni » or « Heil Putin » in front of the cameras. An action, according to them to offer a « Feminist response » to one « Fascist epidemic ».
In Paris too, The far -right collective nemesis, claiming identity feminism, was able to parade about 300 meters behind the main procession. A march particularly supervised by the police and which took place under the hoots of passers -by.
