From Juliette Binoche and Marion Cotillard through the Italian Bianca Atzei, Ambra Angiolini and more.
Even celebrities alongside Iranian women in the battle for their rights and for the truth about the death of Mahsa Amini , the 22-year-old Iranian arrested by the moral police for not wearing the veil correctly ( letting some locks of hair slip ) and died after three days in the hospital where she had arrived from the barracks already in a coma.
To support the protest they film themselves performing the symbolic gesture , that of cutting a lock of hair.
The video released in France on Instagram with the title "Iran Women Support" went viral in a few hours. Binoche kicks off, but then - scissors in hand - Marion Cotillard, Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg are cut. The soundtrack is the now famous Persian version of "Bella Ciao", played by the Iranian singer Gandom, which has become the anthem of the protest: "It is impossible not to denounce this terrible repression again and again - reads the text - Arrests make only to increase the number of prisoners and prisoners already held in absolute illegality and too often tortured. We therefore decided to respond to the appeal that had been addressed to us by cutting ourselves, too, some of our locks ".
The appeal was also picked up in Italy with Giovanna Nina Palmieri, correspondent and host of the Hyenas: "If you feel like it, do it too, cut a lock of hair, send it to the Iranian embassy in Rome, and publish the video on social networks with the hashtag # IeneDonnaVitaLibertà ". Belen Rodriguez , who cut a tuft live during the episode of the Hyenas, answered: "When they trample the rights of one of us, they are trampling the rights of all of us," said the presenter. A symbolic gesture also performed by Bianca Atzei, Claudia Gerini, Ambra Angiolini, Laura Torrisi, Nina Zilli, Rocio Munoz Morales, Chiara Scelsi, Sofia Goggia, Costanza Caracciolo .
"Hair cutting - recalled Luciana Littizzetto - is an old ceremony used in Iran and other neighboring countries. It means 'mourning': when you are faced with great sadness or anger, then you cut your hair. how to ignore one's aesthetic sense or one's beauty to show that one is sad. Now this has become symbolic ".
(Unioneonline / D)