Between 400 people according to the authorities and 600 according to the organizers demonstrated on Sunday in Ajaccio, after a first rally on June 21 in Bastia, to denounce the sexual assaults targeting women.
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Sunday at 6 pm, in Ajaccio, at the call of the #IwasCorsica movement born on Twitter, the demonstrators, mainly young women wearing a white T-shirt crossed out with the inscription "I was", rallied the prefecture from the palace of justice by holding up signs “Take our complaints” , “No, it's no” , or “Rapist, you be afraid” , and shouting in particular “we are strong, we are proud, and feminist and radical and angry !" Between shouts and tears, they chanted, behind their anti-coronavirus masks, "police, justice, classification without result, you are accomplices".
Ajaccio's mayor (DVD), Laurent Marcangeli, was present at the tail of the procession in order to "support this process so that the manifestation of the truth can take place," he told AFP. A train had been chartered free of charge to bring and bring back the demonstrators from Bastia (Haute-Corse) and Corte. Anaïs Mattei, one of the organizers of the two demonstrations, as well as two representatives of women's defense associations were received by the Prefect of Corsica after the demonstration, at the request of Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State for Equality women men.
The #Iwas movement appeared in the United States on June 1 and has since spread around the world with tens of thousands of accounts.