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France: domestic violence, getting out of hell

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Every year in France, more than 200,000 women are victims of domestic violence.

(Illustrative photo) Getty Images/EyeEm - Kittisak Jirasittichai / EyeEm

By: Lise Verbeke

Every year in France, more than 200,000 women are victims of domestic violence.

Physical and psychological violence which has increased due to the Covid-19 crisis, plus 30% of reports during the first confinement.

Femicides have numbered 77 since the beginning of the year, according to associations. victims. 

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"Domestic violence, getting out of hell"

, a major report in the north of France, by Lise Verbeke.

(Rebroadcast August 30, 2021)

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