"We are strong, we are proud, and feminist and radical and angry!" Between 400 people, according to the authorities, and 600, according to the organizers, demonstrated Sunday in Ajaccio, after a first rally on June 21 in Bastia, to denounce the sexual assaults against women but also the way they are sometimes treated by the police and justice.
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 courthouse, holding up signs " Take our complaints "," No it's no "or" Rapist, it's up to you to be afraid ".
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- Geronimi Josepha (@GeronimiJosepha) July 5, 2020Between cries and tears, they chanted, behind their masks of protection against the coronavirus, "police, justice, classification without result, you are accomplices".
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A train was chartered free of charge to bring and bring back the demonstrators from Bastia (Haute-Corse) and Corte.
After the demonstration, the Prefect of Corsica received Anaïs Mattei, one of the organizers of the two demonstrations, as well as two representatives of associations for the defense of women, at the request of Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State for Women's Equality men.
Individual complaints filed collectively
The collective IwasCorsica, in the process of being created, has submitted its demands to the prefect. Among these, detailed Anaïs Mattei, police training "to properly deal with complaints", a stronger presence of psychologists and nurses trained in sexual violence in all high schools and colleges and the creation of a "patent of the non-violence ”in class 3.
The young woman said she had gathered "15 testimonies from people ready to file a complaint". "These will be individual complaints but we will go together, Monday or Tuesday, to the Bastia police station to file these complaints," she announced.
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An investigation was opened in early June following the release of a list of around 100 names of potential attackers and gave rise to "48 complaints of defamation in Haute-Corse," said Bastia prosecutor Caroline Tharot. Another defamation complaint was registered in Corse-du-Sud, according to a source close to the investigation.
A "complaint for a rape which would have been committed last summer in Haute-Corse", was, moreover, filed by one of the four presenters of the page @IwasCorsica on Twitter, added the magistrate. The #Iwas movement appeared in the United States on June 1 and spread around the world with tens of thousands of testimonies, including those of Corsican women ...
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- #Iwas Corsica (@iwascorsica) July 5, 2020
