2023-08-26 19:26:00
Around 1,000 people, including topless women, marched in support of Marina, who was the subject of a criminal order after walking topless through the streets of Aurillac.
By HR with AFP A demonstration took place in support of a woman who walked without a top in the streets of Aurillac. © MONIKA SKOLIMOWSKA / DPA / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP Published on 08/26/2023 at 7:26 p.m.
About 1,000 people, including topless women, marched in Aurillac this Saturday August 26 to support Marina, a young woman subject to a criminal order after walking around topless. This event took place on the sidelines of the theater festival organized by the city.
In a good-natured atmosphere, the procession set off shortly after noon in the streets of the city center behind a head banner indicating “Aurillac topless, the police in PLS”, as shown in particular by photos and videos on X (ex- Twitter).
The slogan was repeated aloud by many demonstrators during the march, while other participants shouted others defending feminism and criticizing the police, according to an AFP correspondent. Arrived in front of the courthouse, the crowd then lent itself to a “clapping”, a collective applause, to support Marina, targeted by a criminal order for sexual exhibition after walking topless in town on Wednesday.
Demonstrations outside the court
Thursday, she had explained her gesture to the local press, saying that she had been “super hot” and wanted to do “like half the men” that day, “who (had) no T-shirts”. She was then checked by police officers after she refused to cover her top at their request.
In front of the court on Saturday, demonstrators, most often masked, also took down French flags in front of the court before setting it on fire for some. Others also took advantage of the happening to break into the building and degrade the waiting room. according to a press release from the prefecture, which condemned “firmly the degradations”.
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Calm then returned after, in particular, the speech of Frédéric Remy, artistic director of Éclat, the association organizing the street theater festival, and that of the mayor of the city Pierre Mathonier.Aurillac welcomes from August 23 to 26 the 36th edition of the International Street Theater Festival, a major street arts event.
Hundreds of artistic performances are offered in the streets of the city or in a marquee. In 2016, a violent demonstration against the excavations of festival-goers aroused great emotion in the city.
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