Paris: the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” in support of the Iranian people displayed on the Eiffel Tower on Monday
This Monday, January 16, from 6:30 p.m., the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” accompanied by a second “#StopExecutionsInIran” will be displayed on the Eiffel Tower. A tribute to the Iranian people paid by the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo who described what happened there as “monstrous”.
“Four months after the death of Mahsa Jîna Amini, Monday January 16 and Tuesday January 17, the Eiffel Tower will display the slogans “Woman, Life, Freedom” and “#StopExecutionsInIran” in tribute to those who bravely fight for their freedom. while the regime continues the executions of demonstrators”, thus communicated the Parisian municipality.
“What is happening in Iran is monstrous”
Some days before, during the traditional ceremony greetings to elected officials on January 10, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo had insisted on her desire to make the capital “a city of refuge, open to the world, generous, welcoming for those fleeing war, terrorism, misery, global warming”.
Explaining that she was alongside “Ukrainians, Uyghurs, Armenians, Afghans, Iranians and Iranians”, the elected socialist then announced that the Eiffel Tower would soon display “proudly the message of the revolution” Woman, Life, Freedom “. “What is happening in Iran is monstrous: a diet that kills his youth has no future. I call for international mobilization,” she said.
In the presence of Iranian personalities, various association partners and some of her deputies, including the first of them Emmanuel Grégoire, the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo will therefore launch this message of support for the Iranian people from 6:30 p.m. from the lower esplanade of the gardens. du Trocadéro, in order to reaffirm “the unwavering support” of Paris to the Iranian people.
A demonstration which is part according to the municipality “in the continuity of the actions” granted by the City “in solidarity with the Iranian people”. And to take as an example the decision taken last October by Parisian elected officials at the Council of Paris to return honorary citizenship posthumously to Mahsa Jîna Amini.