For “that fear changes sides”, the environmental group in the Assembly publishes on Instagram the worst of the hateful, racist and sexist threats regularly received by its deputies.
“You will never be French dirty whore, you deserve a bullet in the head”, receives the deputy of Hauts-de-Seine, Sabrina Sebaihi, born in the Paris region of Algerian parents. “Your uterus? I burst it”, is forced to read Marie-Charlotte Garin, elected in the Rhône.
Since February 8, environmentalists in the Assembly have been revealing these threats and insults on the Instagram account “Balance ton intimidation”, in the form of simple and powerful visuals, but also via screenshots in “stories” that do not feel free to display the accounts that send these messages.
Marion Nadaud, collaborator of the group at the origin of the initiative, assumes with AFP a “tool of denunciation”: “Social networks do not protect women from violent messages. As long as justice is not adapted , overwhelmed by the speed of the networks, we cannot wait for something to happen”.
“It’s a very small action but it’s to show them that we’re not going to let it go,” continues the one who now begins her days by selecting the worst of the messages transferred by the deputies of the group to expose them. “Every morning to start with this violence is not great for me”, she confesses.
“It was heavy to bear for” the deputies, “it is also a way of freeing them from that. Not to leave them alone”, explains Marion Nadaud about the deputies concerned, including President Cyrielle Chatelain, Lisa Belluco, Marie-Charlotte Garin, Julie Laernoes and Sandrine Rousseau, figure of the group.
“What I find striking is how sexualized the insults are,” Sandrine Rousseau told AFP. “There’s a spike every time I talk about feminism.”
“We are deeply in domination. It also shows the culture of rape. As soon as a woman does not please them, it goes on I’m going to fuck you”, warns the deputy from Paris.
According to Marion Nadaud, the environmental initiative could in the future be extended to threats suffered by members of other groups.
02/20/2023 18:45:40 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
