A woman killed in the Alpes-Maritimes, 100th feminicide of 2019 in France denounced by the collective #NousToutes

In this city on the Mediterranean coast, the corpse of a woman was discovered Saturday shortly before 1 pm, close to the station, confirms franceinfo the Departmental Directorate of Public Safety (DDSP), in charge of the investigation. C'is a local resident who gave the'alert to the police, believing to have seen a foot overtaking'a bunch of'garbage.

According to reports by France 3 Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur, a fight broke out in the neighborhood on the night of Friday to Saturday. Shortly before 2 am a call warns the forces of the'order'a violent dispute is going on, on the public road. A witness reports having attended. The man was violent, kicking his head and stomach to the woman he was accompanying. The witness claims to have intervened. "I tried to provoke him to let go, he told me 'go back, I have a knife I'm going to plant you.'" So I took my distance and my mother immediately called the police."

Called in reinforcement, the policemen move and note on the spot that there is nothing to report. It is only much later that the corpse of a woman is discovered, concealed under branches and a quilt. The victim's face is swollen and his body is covered d'bruises, making it difficult to identify.

However, the police believe that this is a young woman of 21, whose father had reported the disappearance. His companion, aged 26, was arrested Sunday early in the afternoon and placed in police custody, says Grasse's prosecutor's office. "It seems to match the images of the city's video-surveillance cameras, on which we see him arguing with the victim"Ensures the floor of Grasse. The interpellation took place through overlaps between the exploitation of CCTV images and various witnesses, some of whom heard the victim say "I'm leaving you" to his attacker.

The feminist collective #NousToutes, which campaigns against sexual and sexual violence, calls on the public authorities, after this 100th feminicide. He organizes, Sunday evening, a rally on the Place du Trocadero, in Paris. He thus hears "denounce the inaction of the government", two days before the launch of the Grenelle domestic violence, under the aegis of Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State for Equality between women and men. "We know what needs to be done to prevent this violence, lots of reports on the issue have been made public, we just need the budget," reports a spokesperson for the collective at franceinfo. An envelope of one million euros has been proposed by the government, while #WeAll believes that it should "at least a billion" to put in place adequate measures.

It also points to the difficulty of recognizing feminicides."Activists make this census on the basis of newspaper articles, but it is estimated that there are actually well over 100, deplores the association. It is a problem that there is no official count made by the authorities, who are still slow to confirm the feminicides.

"At one point, we will have to stop resetting the counter every January 1st and ask the question of how many women have been victims of feminicides since the government made it its so-called national cause." In 2018, 121 women were killed in France by their companion or ex-companion, one every three days, according to the Ministry of the Interior.