Cases of violence against women must be judged “specifically”, Isabelle Rome, delegate minister for Gender Equality, defends this Sunday, shortly after the announcement of a mission entrusted to parliamentarians to improve the judicial treatment of these cases.
“These cases must be judged in a specific way. Slapping your wife has nothing to do with stealing a laptop from a store. This act must be questioned and an immediate response must be given”, said the Deputy Minister of the Prime Minister. Minister, in an interview with Sunday newspaper.
“We must also question the violence of the perpetrators and provide specific support to the victims,” he believes.
“Get inspired by Spain or Quebec”
Elisabeth Borne announced this Friday the creation at the end of September, for a period of six months, of a parliamentary mission in charge of making proposals to improve the judicial treatment of domestic violence.
This mission will be entrusted “to parliamentarians from different groups, in charge of first preparing a diagnosis, given that there are already 123 emergency care channels in the 164 courts in the country,” Isabelle Rome specifies this Sunday.
“Within six months they will formulate recommendations” and “with Élisabeth Borne and Éric Dupond-Moretti, we will also be able to draw inspiration from models such as Spain or Quebec”, he adds.
Better “train judges and prosecutors” on these issues
asked by him JDD On the possible creation of a category of magistrates, the delegate minister replied that “she does not want to anticipate the conclusions of the mission.” “At a minimum, we must continue to train all judges and prosecutors who can handle these types of cases. In particular, on the notion of influence, including coercive control”, she adds.
“We also need to know the psychotrauma and the devastating impact of this violence on children, in order to be able to draw the consequences in terms of the exercise of parental authority, visitation rights and accommodation”, declares Isabelle Rome.
It notes that withdrawals of the parental rights of the perpetrator of domestic violence “are pronounced more and more frequently: 411 only for the first half of 2022, against 75 in 2017.” “We have to break this old pattern that an abusive partner can be a good parent,” he says again.
Source: BFM TV
