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Feminist group invades Cannes in protest of violence against women

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Cannes Film Festival red carpet to highlight violence against women ahead of the premiere of a film about the murder of sex workers.Agence France-Presse reports that Les Colleuses were behind the protest in which approximately 12 women set off black smoke grenades on the steps in front of the Palais des Festivals before the screening of Holy Spider yesterday (May 22).They carried a banner with the first names of 129 women killed in France since the last time the film festival was held, as The Guardian reports further.

The protest happened before actors and crew members for the Ali Abbasi-directed movie had arrived.In the film a female journalist investigates the serial killing of sex workers in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad.

The “Spider Killer” is behind the murders, motivated by exterminating what he claims are sinners from the city’s streets.Cannes 2022: Female activists unfurl long banner during red carpet protest to highlight violence towards women | Track today's latest news here: https://t.co/nQqNDp5g4y pic.twitter.com/zOXZ0TDzEB— Economic Times (@EconomicTimes) May 23, 2022Saeed Hanaei, who killed at least 16 women, was the real-life “spider killer”.

Some Islamist militants put him on a pedestal for the murders.Les Colleuses’ protest followed a protester storming the red carpet on Friday (May 20) before the world premiere of Three Thousand Years Of Longing, demonstrating against sexual violence by Russian forces in Ukraine.#BreakingNews : The red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival: a naked woman protests against sexual violence in #Ukraine.

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