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“Stop Raping Us”: Topless Woman’s Ukraine Protest On Cannes Red Carpet


Cannes Movie Pageant: The demonstrator raised slogans earlier than being led off by safety guards. AFP

Cannes:

A girl stripped off on the purple carpet on the Cannes Movie Pageant to disclose her physique painted within the colors of the Ukrainian flag with the phrases “Cease Raping Us” in a solo protest on Friday.

Sporting underpants stained purple, the demonstrator shouted and posed for photographers earlier than being led off by safety guards.

The stunt briefly interrupted the parade of friends in night put on, together with Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, attending the premiere of their movie “Three Thousand Years of Longing” by George Miller.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned final month investigators had acquired experiences of “a whole lot of instances of rape” in areas beforehand occupied by Russian troops, together with sexual assaults of young children.

Zelensky, a former actor, launched a video attraction for support for his nation on the Cannes opening ceremony on Tuesday.

The battle has already been a serious theme on the competition, with a particular screening on Thursday of “Mariupolis 2”, a documentary by Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was killed in Ukraine final month — reportedly by Russian forces.

Ukraine’s beleaguered film-makers will get a big day on the business market on Saturday, and one among its most promising administrators, Sergei Loznitsa, will present “The Pure Historical past of Destruction”, concerning the bombing of German cities in World Warfare II.

(Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)

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