In Paris, 2,500 people took part in the Place de la République rally, in support of the demonstrations that have shaken Iran since the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, who died three days after her arrest in Tehran by the police of the police manners.
Le Monde with AFP
Thousands of people gathered on Saturday October 29, in Paris and other French cities in support of the protest movement that has shaken Iran since the death of Mahsa Amini, and to demand stronger pressure on The Tehran regime.
In the capital, 2,500 people took part in the Place de la République rally, according to the Paris police headquarters. The demonstrators brandished many Iranian flags and signs with slogans such as “women, life, freedom” or even “they kill us in your silence #mahsaamini” (they kill us while you are silent).
“I think there is a real revolution and I think they will reach freedom,” said Mahtab Ghorbani, 39, writer exiled in France for five years and one of the organizers of this gathering. “I am very happy with the solidarity of the French, who cut their hair and share videos. On the other hand, political and diplomatic level, we need a little more severe measures,” said Mahboubeh Moradi, 35 years , student in anthropology and member of the collective at the initiative of the event.
In Toulouse, there were about 150 parading. Equipped with Iranian flags, the demonstrators formed a human chain by chanting “women, life, freedom”.
hard -rendered manifestations
In Lyon, around 250 people, according to the Rhône prefecture, responded to the call of the collective of the former Lyon students and participated in a walk from Place Bellecour. They brandished “solidarity for freedom” signs, “we are all rebellious”, “#mahsaamini”, and chanted “the Islamic regime we do not want, the misogynist regime we do not want”, “yes to A Democratic Republic in Iran “.
“We want France to think more of human rights than to economic interests,” said Saeed Shafiei, 47, a member of the collective. For this Franco-Iranian doctoral student at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Lyon, “Iranian diasporas in France must give energy”, to those who have been fighting for “43 days” against a totalitarian government and repressive “,” murderer of more than 200 Iranian brothers and sisters “but above all that” the foreign powers act “.
In Iran, since the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini, a 22 -year -old Iranian young Kurdish, the protest, led in particular by women, does not weaken. Mahsa Amini died three days after her arrest in Tehran by the customs police who reproached him for having violated the strict clothing code of the Islamic Republic. To the initial slogan of “women, life, freedom” were added, during harshly repressed demonstrations, watchwords openly directed against the Islamic Republic founded in 1979.