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The measure is allowed since the Grenelle against domestic violence but still too little applied, according to associations.
So this Saturday, the Interior Ministry said that it had recently asked the prefects to "systematically seize the weapons of violent spouses as soon as the complaint".
Minister Gérald Darmanin and Minister Delegate Marlène Schiappa sent a few days ago "an instruction to all the prefects in order to systematize the seizures of weapons in matters of domestic violence and this as soon as the complaint", indicated the place Beauvau in a press release.
The police must also "systematically question those present and the victims on the presence of weapons" during interventions and "check the criminal record - including handrails - of applicants for possession of weapons", is - he adds.
In 2020, 90 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse in France
This measure, voted in July, was among the actions announced by the government in November 2019 at the end of the Grenelle to fight against domestic violence and feminicides.
It makes it possible to requisition the weapons held by a violent spouse from the first filing of a complaint.
In 2020, 90 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse in France, a figure at the lowest since statistics were put in place fifteen years ago.
At the time of the publication of these figures at the beginning of the week, feminist associations and families of victims were concerned that this measure was still insufficiently applied, feminicides by firearms representing about a third of these tragedies.
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