A street artist has covered walls in the northern French city of Lille with portraits of Gisele Pelicot, famous since her ex-husband went on trial for enlisting dozens of strangers to rape her. N°36KD2N8
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00:00She's going to move around the city, she's going to walk, we're going to be able to cross her,
00:07she's going to become a passer-by, an ordinary passer-by, a bit like you could have a neighbor, a sister, a mother.
00:31I'm very happy because I think it's very important to talk about it and to put this person forward.
00:39I don't know what she thinks about it, but in any case, I think it's very important to be able to walk in the streets
00:45and that it echoes this case, even if it's horrible.
00:49I think it's good that we put up her portrait, that people know her face,
00:59because she had the courage that her trial would not be closed,
01:03and what I was saying is that when you see her face, she was extremely brave.
01:19It's a reappropriation of public space by women, victims of violence,
01:28who themselves defend other women who could be victims of violence.
01:31They are a bit like witnesses too, they watch, they watch, they are afraid.
01:35The goal is to remove violence.