As the appeal trial for the Mazan rapes scandal opens in Nîmes (Gard), several feminist collectives, including 'the hysterical knitters', mobilize in front of the courthouse. "We are here to say that this is not trivial, that it has no place in our democracy, and that we are not second-class citizens," explains Vigdis Morisse Herrera, president of the collective. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES