On the front page: “Grenelle des violence conjugales” in France, mixed results two years later
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Each year, in France, 220,000 women are victims of domestic violence.
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By: Norbert Navarro
13 mins
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September 3, 2019, that was exactly two years ago. With great pomp, the French government of the time indeed inaugurated the “
Grenelle
” against domestic violence (named after the rue de Grenelle, in Paris, where the French “Primature” notably perch). Two years later, the question of sheltering the victims of this violence "
remains in abeyance
", deplores
Liberation.
Newspaper in which seven women launch a "
cry of alarm
". Here, one, named Soulef, said to have “
the impression of being a rabbit in the headlights of a car since [she] decided to leave it
”; there, another, whose first name is Aurélia, says sleeping "
with a knife next to it.
From her;
further on, a third - Virginia - affirms that in Spain, she was "
better protected
" than in France, where having lodged a complaint has, according to her, "
been of no use
", reports
Libé
.
Yet the number of spousal homicides fell last year in France
With 102 women and 23 men killed by their spouses, against 146 women and 27 men the previous year, the 2020 toll has indeed improved.
But what will happen to 2021, being reported that 77 women have been killed since the start of this year, marked by an outbreak of violence, reports
Le Figaro
.
Which daily underlines "
the flaws in the protection of women
" and draws up a "
mixed
"
assessment
of the "
Grenelle of domestic violence
".
In the United States, a law restricts the possibility of abortion in the state of Texas, but the Supreme Court decided not to suspend it, until all the appeals filed by its opponents are examined
As a result, in this southern state, women hardly have the right to abort from the moment the embryo's heartbeat is heard on ultrasound.
It is an "
unprecedented regression
", indignant
L'Humanité.
Denouncing a "
conservative counter-revolution
", the French Communist daily stresses that this "
is not happening in Afghanistan, but in the United States
"!
According to
L'Huma
, “
there is no place on the planet where rights are immune from ultraconservative reaction.
Those of women are particularly vulnerable.
"
It is apparently also the case where we would have least expected it: in an arena, in Spain!
As the daily
La Croix
recounts
, bulls named “
Feminist
” and “
Nigerian
” were put to death during a bullfight on August 18 in the arena of Gijon, in northern Spain. First names "
particularly unfortunate
", estimates the French Catholic daily. By discovering them, the blood of the socialist mayor of Gijon "
did not turn around
", relates
La Croix
, she immediately decided to put an end to the bullfights in Gijon. Since then, "
the debate ignites
" in Spain, the "
great bullfighting family
" accusing the mayor of ignorance, because the names of the bulls are transmitted from mother to son and daughter and "
date back more than fifty years
”, which was the case with“
Feminist
”and“
Nigerian
”, adds
La Croix
, without specifying however whether the matador cut off their ears or their tails.
Politics in France, with a reassuring return to Emmanuel Macron.
The head of state's confidence rating has been at its highest for a year:
According to an Elabe poll for Les Echos and Radio Classique, this rating is up 3 points, since at present, 37% of French people trust Emmanuel Macron.
This is indeed the highest point for a year reached by the confidence rating of the Head of State, points in the front page of the newspaper
Les Echos.
Which
economic daily
also notes that on the right, Valérie Pécresse "
catches up
" to the former LR Xavier Bertrand. Candidate for the primary election in project to nominate the right-wing candidate for the presidential election of next year in France, the president (also ex-LR) of the Ile-de-France region "is
ahead of him among sympathizers of right
”, a first for six months.
Another measure of this same survey which will have something to interest the some 1,600 militants of the LR party expected this weekend in Vincennes, near Paris, for their political comeback: the study by the Elabe institute also indicates that 19% of French people say they have a "
positive image
" of journalist and essayist Éric Zemmour.
Among right-wing supporters, this rating even rises to 40%, reports the newspaper
Les Echos
.
It remains to be seen whether primary on the right there will be.
In an interview with
Le Figaro
, Christian Jacob, president of the LR party, repeats that "
it will be the militants who will decide whether or not a primary process
" during the Congress of
Republicans
on September 25.
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