President Emmanuel Macron is expected to be in Dijon on Friday for a trip on the topic of the fight against domestic violence: he will attend training with student gendarmes and will exchange with magistrates and victims, the Elysée announced on Wednesday.
This sequence, organized on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, will be an opportunity to highlight the progress on this issue since the fight against violence against women was declared a “great cause” of the two five-year terms of Emmanuel Macron, highlighted the entourage of the President of the Republic.
“The obligation to do better”
More than 90% of the measures decided at the end of the Grenelle against domestic violence, at the end of 2019, are “fully implemented”, we greeted at the Elysée, where we cited the possibility of collecting complaints at the hospital or at a “third place “, the financing of new reception structures for women, or the multiplication of prevention devices such as “serious danger telephones” and “anti-conciliation bracelets”.
“They are not satisfactions, we have the obligation to do better, but there is a committed dynamic,” we underlined at the Élysée.
The National Federation of Solidarity Women (FNSF), which administers call 3919, reported this week a 14% increase in calls in 2021, compared to 2019.
Between 10,000 and 12,000 calls per month
The hotline, which has been open 24/7 since mid-2021, receives between 10,000 and 12,000 calls per month. Nearly one in five callers report receiving death threats, a rate that has doubled since 2019, according to the FNSF.
On Saturday, tens of thousands of people demonstrated throughout France to denounce the dysfunctions of justice in the face of gender violence, and to demand a “framework law” against “impunity” for the aggressors.
Some activists of the #NousToutes movement demonstrated again on Wednesday, erecting a symbolic wall of cardboard boxes in front of the old courthouse in Paris, to illustrate the scope of the “classified without follow-up” files of violence.
“When women denounce, we don’t believe them, it’s a double sanction,” Maëlle Noir, one of the #NousToutes activists, told AFP. The government is making a “splash of firsts, but there is still a comprehensive plan against violence, with a focus on prevention,” according to her.
Source: BFM TV
