‘Foreign rapists out’: Powerful protest at Cannes Film Festival by female anti-immigration activists

French anti-immigration activists staged a protest at the Cannes Film
Festival, unfurling a banner saying “foreign rapists out”.

The two female demonstrators from Collectif Nemesis, a feminist identarian
group for young French and Swiss women, made their way onto the red carpet
on Friday as staff tried to cover up the message and tear down the banner.

Director Alice Cordier shared photos of the protest on X, and the group on
Sunday posted a video clip of the event on social media showing activists
with the same banner in front of the iconic Cannes road sign.

“Activists from the Collectif Nemesis group invited themselves to the
Cannes film festival demanding that rapists from other countries be
expelled from Europe,” Ms Cordier wrote.

“We are launching a #MeTooImmigration movement because our voices count
too!”

The group’s official X account wrote: “In this event where patriarchy and
VSS [sexual and gender-based violence] are so often denounced, we wanted to
call out the over-representation of foreigners in violence against women.”

It went on to list four demands – the explusion of foreign rapists, the
application of the obligation to leave France, the use of ethnic crime
statistics, and that the state protect women from the “misogyny specific to
certain immigrant cultures”.

The demonstration came just two weeks after two activists held a banner
with the same slogan but in French, in Dole, eastern France.

A short video of the scene shows a man, later identified as a French
Communist Party activist, violently tear down the banner.

In April one of the same activists, Yona Faedda, 19, was arrested in
Besançon for a similar protest, and detained for 10 hours before being
released. Her home was also raided and computer equipment seized.

Signs held at that demonstration read “foreign rapists out” “free us from
immigration” and “46 women could have been spared if the OQTF [obligation
to leave France] had been applied in 2023”.

A Collectif Nemesis spokesperson said at the time: “What justified such
procedures? Our activists are treated as potential terrorists when their
only wrong was to demand the application of the law.”

They also pointed out that the town’s mayor had pushed for Afghan refugees
to be resettled there, and that one had gone on to rape a young woman.

The Cannes protest received an overwhelmingly positive reaction on X, with
Ms Cordier’s posts attracting hundreds of comments.

But the corporate media, both in France and abroad, is yet to write a
single article on the topic, although plenty of coverage has been given to
Cate Blanchett’s dress in Palestinian colours, a nude pro-Ukraine
protester, and other French feminist activists demonstrating about domestic
violence.

Police data released in April shows that 77% of the solved rape cases in
Paris in 2023 were committed by non-citizens, out of a foreign-born
population of 20.3%.

Noticer News contacted Ms Cordier for comment.

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