The deputies adopted Wednesday in committee an amendment LFI to prevent a cohabitation of the children victims of violence with their violent parents, in case of quarantine because of the epidemic of coronavirus.
The amendment presented by Insoumis Alexis Corbière to the bill extending the state of health emergency provides that child victims of violence "may not be quarantined, placed or kept in solitary confinement, or be forced to live together in the same home as the perpetrator of the violence when he is quarantined, placed or kept in solitary confinement ”.
"If the eviction of the perpetrator cannot be executed, a place of accommodation allowing the respect of their private and family life is allocated to them", adds the text, "why not by requisitioning hotel rooms ", According to Alexis Corbière.
40% increase in police interventions at home
This amendment comes after a measure voted unanimously in the Senate on the proposal of the PS to prevent women victims of violence from being placed in quarantine with their violent spouses. "The amendment by colleague Corbière is inspired by the work done by the Senate on women victims of domestic violence, it goes in the right direction," reacted the LREM rapporteur Marie Guévenoux, simply supplementing it with a subamendment by precision. "Finally, an amendment from La France Insoumise adopted by LREM," said Alexis Corbière on Twitter.
Period particularly at risk for women and children victims of violence, confinement has led to a 40% increase in police interventions at home, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
- Violence
- Child protection
- Child
- Confinement
- Quarantine
- Coronavirus
- Society