Like so many other women who will be gathered at the Place de la République in Paris on Saturday afternoon, she wants to denounce the inertia of the public authorities face the scourge of feminicides. Caregiver and spokesperson of the Collective of relatives and families of feminicides, Céline Lolivret will lie on the floor in memory of her childhood friend, died under the blows of his companion. "The police did not know how to protect it, like the justice", she testifies on Europe 1, calling for concrete and fast measures of the government, whereas the collective counted 74 women killed since the beginning of the year 2019 by their spouse or former spouse.
At the gathering scheduled for 17 hours by her collective, Céline Lolivret "will incarnate" Julie, his childhood friend. A young woman "sparkling", shot dead March 3, 2019 in his apartment in Corsica. According to the militant's testimony, Julie, who had two children, had complained six times, unsuccessfully, and had tried one last time to alert the gendarmes on the eve of the tragedy, on the carrying of his companion. "He was told: 'as long as he does not kill you, you can not take his weapon away from him'," says Céline Lolivret.
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"The police did not know how to protect her, like justice", she denounces again. Poor care in the police stations that Céline Lolivret herself lived. Beaten for five years by her companion, she had decided to file a complaint. But the first time, "I was told it was neither the day nor the time to complain". Before being told, when he returns the next day: "we can not take your complaint, it will be a handrail".
"The government must react"
"Very revolted" by the figures of the killings since the beginning of the year, the carer calls for emergency measures. "It is necessary that the government reacts, it is not possible these figures," she warns. "We can not go up to 140 women killed at the end of the year." "It is necessary that systematically when a woman comes in a police station, that she files a complaint, and not a handrail", because in case of handrail, "it does not go back to the level of the prosecutor". And to also claim "an order of removal and protection for these women and children". Because too often, according to her, the measures adopted are inappropriate. "It is up to the concubine to leave the accommodation and not to the woman to go to a home".
Beaten for a long time, Cécile Lolivret only recently decided to testify openly. "It was important for the memory of my friend," she says, trusting her desire to have "this strength for all women who could not speak."