Domestic violence - 20 Minutes
These are figures that worry. Since the start of confinement on March 17, the number of police interventions for domestic violence has increased by 32% in the gendarmerie zone and 36% in the Paris police prefecture zone.
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- #NousToutes (@NousToutesOrg) March 19, 2020Only five days after the start of confinement, the first femicide occurred. An 81-year-old woman was killed by her husband in Lot-et-Garonne. A homicide passed almost unnoticed amid the thousands of deaths of the Covid-19. So the victims' and women's rights associations rose to the plate. And called on the government to put in place an emergency plan to prevent other women from suffering the same fate.
An alert by secret code or SMS
Result: the Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Marlène Schiappa, announced, Sunday, the establishment, the next day, of "support points" in shopping centers. A device which is added to that, already in place for a few days, allowing victims to give the alert in pharmacies thanks to a secret code, "mask 19".
Finally, an SMS alert system was put in place this Wednesday, April 1. Victims of domestic violence can now alert the police or the SAMU and the firefighters by sending an SMS to 114. A system allowing to reinforce the listening number 3919 "Violences Femmes info", in place since 2014.
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