In Aurillac, a demonstration in support of a woman denounced for wearing topless

This Saturday, August 26, a thousand people demonstrated in the streets of Aurillac to support a woman tried for sexual exhibition.

A thousand. This is the number of people, the vast majority of them women, who paraded topless through the streets of Aurillac on Saturday 26 August, on the sidelines of the city’s street theater festival.

This feminist rally was organized to support a woman, Marina, who is on trial. On Wednesday 23 August, while she was walking topless through the village, she was checked by the police. After refusing to cover her top at their request, she was fined and is now subject to a court order. tried for “sexual exhibition”. “.

The next day he explained to the local press that he had ” super hot and want to do ” like half of men » who, that day, that they didn’t have shirts “, reports theFrance Press Agency.

“Aurillac Topless, Police PLS”

It was in an atmosphere of good nature that this woman was supported by thousands of chanting protesters“Aurillac Topless, Police PLS”as demonstrated in particular by photos and videos published on X (formerly Twitter) by a journalist from the local newspaper The mountain.

The protesters finally went to the courthouse to launch a collective applause in support of Marina. Only that the demonstration is a bit ‘degenerate.

Second’French media agency, some individuals allegedly took advantage of the demonstration to tear down the French flags on the field and set them on fire. Others entered the building and damaged a room. But calm quickly returned after the speech by Frederick Remyreports the artistic director of Éclat, the organizing association of the street theater festival Western France.

An end to the demonstration that provoked a reaction from Éric Dupond-Moretti: “I strongly condemn the violence and degradation committed in the court of Aurillac. Attacking the justice of the Republic and those who serve it is unacceptable! All my support goes to the magistrates and the staff concerned, tomorrow I will be by their side” reacted on X.

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