Right-Wing Feminists Break Through at Paris Anti-Violence March

Of course, to the Left, none of the violence against women could possibly be committed by "migrants", so they don't like the fact that the Right points out that MOST of the violence comes from the invading jihadist army.

From The European Conservative

By Hélène De Lauzun, PhD

For the first time, conservative feminist groups joined France’s annual anti-violence protests—facing hostility from left-wing activists.

As part of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a large demonstration was organised in Paris on Saturday, November 22nd. For the first time, conservative right-wing feminist associations managed, not without difficulty, to make their presence felt and their voices heard on issues that are largely ignored by those usually present: immigration and crime.

Across France, similar demonstrations took place ahead of the official day on November 25th.  President Emmanuel Macron made this a major national priority in 2017. However, according to feminist organisations, the situation continues to deteriorate. While the diagnosis is shared, not everyone agrees on the root causes of the problem and the remedies to be applied.

All complain about the lack of resources allocated to reception and prevention services, which are unable to deal with the constant increase in violence against women—rape, assault and domestic violence. They accuse the state of stepping back and refusing to grasp the scale of the task. Activists no longer expect anything from it: “We can no longer count on the government,” laments Yéléna Mandengué of the Nous Toutes collective.

Among the ranks of the demonstrators, other young women were also there to express their discontent. Among them were representatives of the feminist identitarian collective Nemesis, led by Alice Cordier, who highlights the violence that French women have to endure as a result of immigration. “French rapists in prison, foreign rapists on planes,” read the placards they brandished energetically.

“We refuse to be the victims of a migration policy that we did not choose,” explained Alice Cordier during the demonstration.

Their place in the procession was hard-won. Right-wing feminists—representing a new generation of feminism that does not seek to fuel a sterile war between the sexes but defends the dignity of women in all its dimensions—are not welcome. The Nemesis activists gathered at Square du Temple, not far from Place de la République, the epicentre of the procession, before joining the crowd, flanked by the police. Policemen formed a barrier against the antifas, who were determined to fight them, shouting “Feminists are antifas, Nemesis get lost!” Three arrests were made. As Alice Cordier recently told us, the Nemesis collective is relieved, in such circumstances, to be able to count on the support of the police. Many police officers know that their fight is just and do not hesitate to let them know—in private. Nevertheless, right-wing feminists had to march separately, and the front of the procession remained dominated by the Left and the far-left.

Leftist MP Ersilia Sourdais targeted the Nemesis collective, arguing that it exploits the fight for women’s rights “for racist purposes.” According to her, rapes committed by foreigners are “anecdotal”—contrary to all the statistics that prove the over-representation of foreigners in rape and sexual assault cases. On X, Alice Cordier responded by pointing out that there were 6,000 victims of rape by foreigners in 2024.

Claire Geronomi, president of the association Eclats de femme, which supports women who are victims of violence, was also present for the first time.

A victim of rape by an African migrant who was due for deportation, she is involved alongside Éric Ciotti in the Union des Droites pour la République (UDR, for Union of the Right for the Republic), allied with the Rassemblement National (RN)—a political position that professional feminist demonstrators do not accept, on the grounds that one can only be left-wing when one is a feminist.

While Geronimi welcomes this first experience, she regrets not having been able to join the main procession. She was dissuaded from doing so by the police, who felt they could not adequately ensure her safety. “Seeing other women greet us with hostility, to the point of creating a climate of tension and violence: on a day dedicated to denouncing violence against women, witnessing this is particularly sad,” she lamented in a long post on X.