The Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, must detail, Monday, May 22, a series of measures to fight against domestic violence following the submission of a parliamentary report to the chancellery. These measures, which will be the subject of decrees or will incorporate bills in the coming weeks and months, were announced in March by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, as part of her plan for gender equality. men, “great cause” of the quinquennium.
Among the measures is the implementation in the 164 courts of France of “units specializing in domestic violence”. Their framework will be fixed by decree. Each pole will include a team coordinated by magistrates from the seat and the referring prosecutor’s office, but the heads of jurisdictions will have the hand to adapt their poles according to local specificities, by choosing for example to devote or not dedicated hearings.
The government also wants to allow a judge to pronounce, in the event “extreme emergency”, a protection order in twenty-four hours, requested for a long time. The deadlines for these orders authorizing, for example, the eviction of the violent spouse or a ban on contact, had been reduced to six days in 2019 (45 days on average previously). This new procedure of “the immediate” will be provisional: it should then be re-examined, in a contradictory way, by a judge.
Already forty women killed since the beginning of the year
The Ministry of the Interior has identified 207,743 victims of domestic violence in France in 2021, mainly women, an increase of 21% compared to 2020. A total of 122 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse that same year, according to the ministry. Around forty women have already been killed since the start of 2023, according to ociations.
Figures that the authorities are unable to bring down, despite the multiplication of measures taken, in particular since the Grenelle of 2019, notes in the preamble the report aimed at “Improving the legal treatment of domestic violence” which will be given in the morning to Eric Dupond-Moretti and to the Minister responsible for equality between women and men, Isabelle Rome.
The two authors of the report, Emilie Chandler (Renaissance MP for Val-d’Oise) and Dominique Vérien (Senator for Yonne, UDI), begin by noting the doubling of complaints since 2016 “in a context of freedom of speech and improvement of the reception conditions for victims by the police and gendarmerie services”as well as the judicial response more ” fast “ (doubling of convictions in criminal courts, +218% of removal measures between 2017 and 2021), even if progress is not ” at the same level “ throughout the territory.
In their recommendations, they stress the need to further work on the “necessary global vision” and the “coordination” between the different actors – shortcomings in the follow-up of violent and recidivist spouses have been revealed during several feminicides in recent years.
Take inspiration from Spain
They recommend the creation of a file containing information on the perpetrators (on which the chancellery and the interior are already working), and better care for violent men (dedicated prevention campaigns, follow-up committee for releases from prison …), victims and children, in particular by proposing the creation of a ” Status “ ad hoc administrator.
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Progress is still to be made in terms of training − the “implemented process” in family violence is still often unrecognized and therefore poorly detected, notes the report.
The mandatory hazard essment grids are “far from being” systematically fulfilled, underline the parliamentarians, also suggesting taking inspiration from Spain, a pioneering country in this area, and setting up a file evaluating “based on an algorithmic calculation” the risk of acting out.
The report also proposes to further relax the procedures for issuing “serious danger phones”. Nearly 3,500 are active (+471% since 2019) but they remain three times less awarded than in Spain.
As to “anti-relationship bracelets” (1,000 active), which have also proven themselves in Spain, they still have many technical problems, the report points out. A new generation bracelet “will be deployed next month, promises the chancellery.
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