- With confinement, domestic violence explodes, according to the police and gendarmes in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The phenomenon is national.
- The arguments over the background of alcohol multiply while the victims find themselves trapped in homes.
- The State maintains its services in the face of this upsurge. The police do not hesitate to resume contact with the victims after their interventions.
It was a predictable scenario and unfortunately, it is checked a little more each day. Domestic and intra-family violence has increased or even exploded since the start of confinement in France. The Gironde police and gendarmes are in unison on the subject: "If delinquency (theft, burglary, trafficking, etc.) is falling sharply, explain their departmental officials, interventions for family violence are increasing even if they do not not necessarily trigger procedures each time. This Wednesday evening, their colleagues from Périgord, for example, arrested a thirty-something man who threatened his family with a gun and tried to set the house on fire.
As of March 18, the use of emergency police in the department was already rising sharply with 1,200 calls that day against 600 usually. A week later, the number of requests on the arretonslesviolences.gouv.fr platform would have increased by 40% according to the Girondin police. Indeed, as the government pointed out at the beginning of the week, "the particular context of confinement unfortunately constitutes a breeding ground favorable to violence" because of "the promiscuity, tensions and anxiety" that it brings about.
Even more difficult to report for victims
The gendarmes point out an increasing number of interventions for “family disputes over alcohol and often at night. On this subject, the answer of Fabienne Buccio, the prefect of Gironde and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, is clear: there will be no prohibition of alcohol sales "at this stage" as has tried to do its counterpart in Aisne. The representative of the State prefers to raise a much more important problem:
"I don't want to stigmatize anyone but at the moment men are much more present in the family home than usual with confinement and it is therefore even more difficult for the victims to report to the authorities. "
A situation in which, most associations say they are "distraught" like the National Union of Feminicide Families. “Being confined is already complicated for people who get on well. So, for victims of domestic violence, they will experience a real ordeal, "recalled its president Sandrine Bouchait a few days ago. Without forgetting, children, also on the front line in the face of violence.
The police do not hesitate to call back after their interventions
So how do we limit domestic violence as much as possible? There are the means known with the police or gendarmerie services (17 or 112), the fire brigade (18 or 112) or the Samu (15) who remain mobilized for emergency situations. Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State for Gender Equality and the Fight against Discrimination, announced that the hotlines, government platforms, support in emergency accommodation and criminal trials against the attackers would be maintained. The 3919 is notably again operational since Monday.
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The police are also mobilized on the ground: “After certain interventions, we do not hesitate to call people back and to get back in touch with them. We are very attentive to this phenomenon, ”explains the gendarmerie of the Gironde.
For his part, the Secretary of State to the Minister of Solidarity and Health in charge of childhood Adrien Taquet "again calls everyone to be extra vigilant during this period, and to dial 119 if one is witness , even hearing, even in doubt, of violence committed on a child, whatever his nature. The government will also reactivate an awareness campaign on the issue of violence against children this week.
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