The Head of State will head a ceremony at the Paris courthouse, in memory of the famous lawyer, who died in 2020 at the age of 93, announces the Elysée.
MO12345LEMONDE
The Presidency of the Republic announced, Thursday, March 2, that a tribute ceremony to the lawyer Gisèle Halimi, who died in 2020 at the age of 93, will be organized on the occasion of the day international women’s rights. Emmanuel Macron will be present on Tuesday, March 8, at the Paris courthouse, more than two years after having announced for the first time, without it leaving, the holding of a tribute to this figure of XX feminism E century, great defender of the right to abortion and recognition of rape as a crime in the 1970s.
In 2020, the calendar of a first ceremony had been shaken by the displacement of the Head of State in Lebanon, shortly after the explosion of the port of Beirut. Since then, a gesture of recognition from France to Gisèle Halimi has been requested several times on the part of elected officials and part of her family.
His entry to the Pantheon, notably desired by feminist associations, came up against reluctance by Emmanuel Macron, despite the call in this sense of sixty-six parliamentarians of the majority in November. One of the reasons could be the position of the lawyer on the Algerian war and his defense of militants of the National Liberation Front (FLN), while the President, since his arrival in power a policy of reconciliation of memories on This subject.
Lawyer, politician and writer, Gisèle Halimi has made her life a fight for women’s rights, marked by a resounding trial in 1972. She then defended, before the Bobigny Criminal Court, in the Paris region, Marie- Claire Chevalier, a minor accused of having recourse to an abortion after being the victim of rape. She obtained the relaxation of the young woman and managed to mobilize opinion, paving the way for the decriminalization of abortion, at the beginning of 1975. Elected deputy in 1981, she continued the fight in the Assembly, this time For the reimbursement of the voluntary pregnancy interruption, finally voted in 1982.