Collectif Némésis is an organisation in France and Switzerland for women. describing itself as feminist and

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. The organisation is named after

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, the Greek goddess of revenge, and was founded by in 2019. The organisation believes in a connection between

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, namely that non-European immigrants, particularly Muslims, present an elevated risk of violence towards women. The organisation has been condemned as racist by mainstream feminist organisations.

History

The organisation first appeared on 23 November 2019 at the "Nous Toutes" (All of us Women) demonstration in

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, in which it carried placards saying that 52% of rapists in

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were foreign, and ones reading "

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, soon

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. After the event, the group said that other feminist groups are run by the extreme left and "prefer to focus on anecdotal themes (inclusive writing, sexism in advertising, etc.). And they only deal with the violence that women suffer daily (such as street harassment) by drowning it in abstract concepts such as that of patriarchy, to hide the fact that our attackers are massively of non-European origin". In January 2021, the group wore niqab at the

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to promote a "No Hijab Day" in opposition to

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. In 2021, the group launched in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. The Swiss group has tried to gain attention at the ''Grève feministe'' (Feminist strike), whose representatives responded that "This group is riding the

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bandwagon and uses it not to promote the freedom of women, but rather the discrimination towards its targets, notably foreigners". By June 2022, Némésis had been expelled three times from events organised by ''Grève feministe''. In April 2022, it was expelled from a social event organised by the

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. In October 2023, it was reported that some members of the

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, the country's leading party at federal level, had joined Némésis.

References

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External links

Official website
(in French) 2019 establishments in France Anti-Islam sentiment in France Identitarian movement in France Women's organizations based in France Immigration to France Far-right politics in France Anti-Islam sentiment in Switzerland Women's organisations based in Switzerland Far-right politics in Switzerland