Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Protestors march during the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Paris, France ...

Thousands of people marched in the capital alone, mostly women but including some children and men. Police put the turnout there at 12,500, while organisers said 80,000. Police sources said 35,000 people had turned out across the country, while organisers put the figure at 100,000.

In the coming week, the prosecutors will ask the court in the southern city of Avignon to sentence 51 men, including the one who drugged his wife for over a decade and dozens of others who accepted his invitations to abuse her.