Demo against violence against women in Frankfurt: “He said that he can have sex with me if he wants”
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500 people demonstrate in Frankfurt on the International Day against violence against women and girls.
The demo is a mixture of happy “Spice Girls” power scenes and sad stories that are told in between. Hundreds of women and a few men run and dance through Goethestrasse to the lengths of Aretha Franklin’s “Respect”. The saleswomen of the luxury labels look and smile. A customer looks confused when the demonstrators shout: “Sexual self-determination” and “No to violence.”
All over the world, people took to the streets on Thursday evening, the International Day against Violence against Women * and Girls *. According to the police, there are 350 people in Frankfurt at this demo, and 120 at a second one at Kaisersack Girls * “called. Start from Willy-Brandt-Platz and have to shorten their route through the city because the police fear that. But the speakers then speak longer in front of the Alte Oper. This is on, like many other buildings in of the city in orange, the color of non-violence, illuminated by UN-Women. “No more looking the other way, keeping silent, playing down: violence is violence, murder is murder and not a relationship or family drama,” calls out the ex-city councilor Ursula a uf der Heide from the stage. Every third day in Germany a woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner. But in everyday life, too, the spectrum ranges from “grabbing at the club”, as a 24-year-old says, to being assaulted e 17-year-old tells, while a speaker is close to tears because of the lack of women’s rights in Afghanistan, that her ex-boyfriend raped her many times. “He said that he can have sex with me if he wants just because we were in a relationship. Even if I didn’t want to. ”And because it took her a year to separate from him, she is here. To tell other women; “No means no.” This sentence is also written with a marker pen on her friend’s orange umbrella. She is also only 17 and has experienced violence in the family and in the relationship. Both get help at the girls house,
According to the UNESCO commission, 243 million girls and women worldwide suffered from the consequences of abuse even before the pandemic began. Show the way on the stage in front of the Alte Oper ”. This is what a spokeswoman for the lesbian information and advice center says. Gabi Becker from integrative drug help reads hard-to-bear brutal experiences of drug users. The crowd is silent for a moment.