“The mobilizations continue for sex workers in Gerland”, announces the Red Umbrella Federation Monday evening on Twitter. Justice has just rejected the appeal filed by this association against the prefectural decree, taken at the beginning of May, prohibiting the parking of “any vehicle in which a prostitution activity is carried out” in about twenty streets in Gerland, in the 7th arrondissement. from Lyon.
A measure that leaves these women “without a solution”, not knowing “where to go and how to recover their vehicle taken to the pound”, confided Lola Levy, member of the Lyon association for aid to sex workers, Cabiria.
A “historic” rally in Paris in support of sex workers
According to the rhinestone (the sex work union), 400 women have been expelled from Gerland for a month. To “protest against their expulsion”, a support rally bringing together sex workers from the Ile-de-France and Lyon is organized on Friday in Paris. “This historic moment of coordination of struggles shows a united front of [personnes concernées] and allies against violence and criminalization,” the union adds.
The Red Umbrella Federation also recalled on social networks that the Lyon association Cabiria had been received by Isabelle Rome, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister in charge of Equality between women and men, Diversity and Equal opportunities. “We asked her to act for sex workers,” writes the federation, which specifies that the minister is invited to the rally on Friday.