The team “We are all” took place today in Paris mobilization to condemn 101 femicide in France from the beginning of the year and call on the government to do more to combat violence against women.

Dressed in black and wearing purple veils in mourning, 101 women stood silently in the Pantheon Square in the city center, each holding a card with the names and ages of the victims.

On posters laid out on the ground between them, the women wrote slogans such as “We want to stay alive” and “To love is not to kill.”

“We have October 9 and 101 women were killed by men because they were women, we don’t want to count deaths anymore,” Yuna Mirai told reporters on behalf of the collective.

“We urge the creation of places to live for women and their children who are in need of asylum,” he added, saying that 213,000 women in France are at risk.

The number of femicides in France increased by 20% in 2021 compared to the previous year: according to the calculations announced at the end of August by the Ministry of the Interior, 122 women were killed by their partner or former partner. In 2020, the number of femicides rose to 102, and in 2019 to 146. It is not known what role quarantine periods played in this increase.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP.}