We must "not relax the effort", but progress has been made in the fight against violence against women, believes Emmanuel Macron.

The president met victims on Friday in Dijon.

"I suffered violence for twenty years," told him one of the two women victims of domestic violence with whom the head of state spoke.

After being "too scared" to file a complaint for a long time, she finally did so after "stab wounds" and a report from the hospital.

The man was sentenced to prison but she explained to live "in anguish" of his release, because even if a removal measure is taken, "it is only a paper".

“I know very well that one day it will fall on me”, added, sobs in his voice, the second victim.

President Macron had previously attended, at the Dijon Gendarmerie School, a simulation exercise of an intervention by the police to arrest a violent husband and immediately take charge of his wife and children.

"There has nevertheless been collective progress", with "an immense work of training our internal security forces", estimated Emmanuel Macron during a round table, on the occasion of the international day for the elimination of violence against women.

This theme, and gender equality more broadly, has been declared a “great cause” for its two five-year terms.

"We must not relax the effort", however insisted the president.



More than 90% of the measures decided at the end of the Grenelle against domestic violence, at the end of 2019, are “Completely implemented”, we welcome at the Élysée.

Emmanuel Macron recalled the possibility of collecting complaints at the hospital and the multiplication of prevention devices such as "anti-reconciliation bracelets".

Asked about the establishment of specialized courts, he recalled that parliamentary work was underway with a view to a “decision before the summer”.

"I'm not abandoning the idea at all, we need it, we have to be very ambitious and put in the maximum of resources," he said.

"But we must beware of having one or two people who, in a department, would only deal with this subject", "it is absolutely necessary that everyone is better trained on the subject", he said. added.

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