‘We will not be silent’ - protestors call for end to violence against women

Protestors marched along the St Julian's/Sliema promenade on Friday evening calling for an end to violence against women in a “Reclaim the Night” march.

Around a hundred people marched from the LOVE monument in St Julian's to Ġnien l-Indipendenza in Sliema just hours after the late Bernice Cassar's funeral, held at the Żebbuġ parish church.

That ceremony was packed with mourners who went to pay their respects to the murdered mother-of-two.

Cassar was killed while driving to work at Paola on Tuesday. She was shot twice with her estranged husband charged with her murder.

She is the third woman murdered this year. 

Photo: Daniel Tihn

The protestors gathered in the same garden where Polish student Paulina Dembska was raped and murdered in January.

Protestors carried placards reading "Women don't owe you anything" and "Stop blaming girls and women". Others held up pictures of Bernice and Paulina. The Reclaim the Night march was fronted by Moviment Graffiti along with more than 20 NGOs. It was the first Reclaim the Night march held in Malta - a movement that started in the UK in the 1970s and which later spread across the globe. ‘We don’t want to be quiet’

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