Feminist group invades Cannes in protest of violence against women
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.