In Paris, feminists take over Balance ton quoi to denounce violence against women

“So let me sing to you, soon the end of impunity.”

Saturday, November 5, opposite the Center Pompidou in Paris, passers-by may have been surprised to hear the cover of Angèle's famous hit,

, by a feminist choir.

“To speak is still to expose oneself to your complaints and your jeremiads.

Your confidence is arrogant, we forge our strength among women”, in particular proclaimed in song the activists gathered in front of Beaubourg.

On the initiative of #NousToutes, this happening had one objective: to raise awareness of violence against women, which remains massive year after year.

“All over the world, women are harassed, beaten, raped, killed because they are women”, reaffirms the collective in a press release.

Since the beginning of the year, 109 women have been murdered in France.

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“Cry out our anger”

Sing to act.

Sing also to make the voice of the victims heard, whoever they are.

Because "women, trans people are not the only ones to die under male violence, children are also victims or co-victims", underlines #NousToutes, for whom this feminist choir is a means of "shouting our anger in the face of to the structural failures of French institutions, which too often abandon the victims”.

Justice is steeped in a patriarchal culture that denies the voice of victims

Collective #WeAll

As proof, #NousToutes advances alarming figures.

In France, less than 1% of rapes lead to a conviction, notes the collective.

In addition, while each year 213,000 women experience violence from their spouse or ex-spouse, 80% of complaints for domestic violence are dismissed.

And among the women murdered in 2019, 65% had taken the matter to the police or to the courts.

"Because justice, too, is impregnated with a patriarchal culture which denies the word of the victims, makes them feel guilty and protects the aggressors", judge the activists of the movement.

The feminist choir finally concluded its happening with

by Mexican singer Vivir Quintana.

Composed in 2019, this piece aims to denounce femicides, a real scourge in Mexico.

It has since become a feminist anthem in its own right.

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