Between January and mid-July, 39 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse, up from 70 over the same period in 2019.
In the North, a policeman is suspected of having killed his companion of 45 years of age with a firearm, on Thursday, in the barracks of the gendarmerie, of Balliol, before turning the gun on himself, injuring themselves badly. On the same day, at Ifs, near Caen, a firefighter 46-year-old was placed in police custody, suspected of having killed his partner of 38 years. He would have choked her before calling emergency services. The couple, who had two children, was in the process of separating.
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assuming that the survey confirms that they are both the authors of these killings, these cases would be to at least 39 the number of women killed by their spouse or ex-since the beginning of the year, according to a count by the AFP. The agency is based on the census conducted by the collective Femicide by partners or ex, and even higher (53 victims, including cases in the North and the Calvados), which takes into account a dozen cases of femicide alleged to circumstances yet to be elaborated.
summer Offer : Take advantage of the special offer 2 months for 1€ I subscribein The past year, between January and July, with the method of counting of the AFP, 70 deaths had been identified. If the number of femicides seems so down since the beginning of 2020 in France, the associations see this as mostly a consequence of the confinement, these two new murders over the course of the week showing, according to them, that much remains to be done nearly a year after the Grenelle against violence.
For Floriane Volt, director of public affairs for the Foundation for women, if "the trend seems to be downward, we can see an effect of the Grenelle, but especially something of the business cycle, linked to the containment". "A lot of femicides occur when women want to leave, but many have not been able to travel during this period", she analyzes, believing that to be "actually lower the numbers there should be more hosting solutions in places specialized with tailored support".
"When she says 'I'm going'"
Period particularly at risk of violence in the family, the containment has resulted in an increase of 36% of the interventions of the forces of the order for this reason. At the end of may, Marlène Schiappa, the then secretary of State in charge of Equality, woman-man, had explained that the platform is dedicated to domestic violence had received five times more reports than in normal times. "But there would have been, I put a lot of quotes and a lot of caution, least of femicides than usual", she continued, referring to a feminicide "all the 4.2 or 4.4 days" instead of one every three days or two and a half days.
"During the confinement, the women were trapped. This is when Madame said, 'I'm going' he kills", says Sandrine Stuffed, president of the national Union of the families of feminicide (UNFF), fearing a "backlash". "Everything is still too slow. And during this time, women still die", breath does it.
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In the wake of the Grenelle, which concluded in the month of November, two bills have emerged. The law Pradié (the name of the mp, the LR of the Lot, who said Friday the new keeper of the Seals Éric Dupond-Moretti "woefully silent on the issue of domestic violence"), adopted by the end of 2019, which focuses in particular on the generalization of the bracelet anti-approximation for the spouses or ex-spouses violence ; and a proposal for a law LREM, in the process of being adopted, which introduces an exception to medical confidentiality in cases of "immediate danger" and opens the possibility to suspend the parental authority in the context of a judicial review of a violent parent.
"We are still at the legislative level, so it is a necessary step to the devices," says yet Floriane Volt, which requires putting in place 24h/24 number of victim assistance 3919 and the command "fast" bracelets anti-reconciliation.
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The tragedy of feminicide
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Date Of Update: 18 July 2020, 09:58
