- If the anti-LGBT acts recorded by the police have increased in recent years, the victims are still too few to file complaints, note the associations.
- The Flag! Association, which has 600 members in the Ministries of the Interior and of Justice, launched this Thursday an application making it possible to report anti-LGBT violence and to refer the victims to the appropriate structures.
- At the same time, the Secretary of State for Equality between Women and Men launched an emergency plan to help lesbian, gay, bi and trans people in the context of the current health crisis.
It was a dark year. In 2018, the police had identified 1,378 victims of “anti-LGBT” offenses, an increase of 34.3% compared to 2017, according to figures released at the time by the Interior Ministry. . But their number is probably underestimated. Indeed, there are still many victims who do not dare to go to file a complaint, either through apprehension or because they are aware of the difficulties in obtaining the conviction of the perpetrators. It is this observation which led the association Flag!, Which brings together LGBT agents from the Ministries of the Interior and of Justice, to think about the creation of a mobile application allowing to report acts of violence towards lesbian people. , gay, bi and trans.
Available since Thursday for Android devices, this application designed with the support of the Dilcrah (Interministerial Delegation to Combat Racism,
Antisemitism and Anti-LGBT Hate) allows users to report insults, violence or degradations, date them and locate them. "This information will then enable the victim to be referred to appropriate contacts: if he is a minor, he will be advised to call 119 Enfance en danger. If it is a young adult who suffers from family violence, they will be offered to join the Refuge or the Mag (Affirmation of Young Lesbians, Gays, Bi & Trans) ", explains Johan Cavirot, the president , to 20 Minutes of Flag !. And if the situation warrants, the application will suggest filing a complaint or reporting to the platform for combating gender-based and sexual violence, for example.
Cartography
Users only enter general information in the application: age group, socio-professional category, gender, etc. The user can therefore remain anonymous if they wish. The reports received will also feed into a map whose purpose is to enable the public authorities to develop public policies and targeted actions. “We need to know where LGBT-phobias are located in order to find suitable solutions with our partners. In Paris, for example, we do not do prevention in Barbès as we do in the 16th or in the Marais. It is not the same typology of public, ”underlines Johan Cavirot.
Domestic violence affects all couples.
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A scientific committee, in partnership with the Jean Jaurès foundation, will be responsible, each year, at the beginning of the year, for establishing "a real sociological study" on the basis of these reports, adds the president of this association, created in 2001 and with approximately 600 members. The application will be available soon for iPhone. But its launch was rushed "because of the violence identified in recent days," says Flag! in a press release. "Many young people are currently going through hell" because they are "confined with homophobic parents," Marlene Schiappa told Liberation .
Emergency plan
The Secretary of State for Equality between women and men, godmother of the application launched by Flag !, announced this Friday the launch of an "emergency plan". 300,000 euros were released "to finance 6,000 hotel nights during confinement" to "allow young people facing homophobic violence to be protected". She also confirmed that LGBT people in difficulty could give the alert in the pharmacy or write an SMS to 114, as is possible for women victims of violence. Finally, Marlène Schiappa claims to have intervened to “speed up” the reopening of the SOS Homophobie hotline, “suspended due to technical difficulties”.
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