France, Nov. 22 -- In Paris, crowds of demonstrators - 50,000 according to organisers, 17,000 according to the police - waved signs, chanted, danced and sang as they moved through the capital in the protests organised by the Greve feministe (Feminist Strike) collective of some 60 organisations.

"A man kills a woman every 2.5 days in France," read one placard distributed by the feminist collective NousToutes (All of us Women).

"Nine out of 10 victims know their rapist," read another.

"It's 2025, is it still normal to count our dead women?" said Sylvaine Grevin, president of the national femicide victims' federation, whose sister was killed in 2017, ahead of the start of the Paris demonstration.

Hundreds of protesters also gathered in t...