INTERVIEW
"I would like to be aware of the urgency we are in." This is the message of Isabelle Steyer, lawyer at the Paris Bar and specializing in violence against women, guest of Wendy Bouchard, Sunday on Europe 1. While a Grenelle on the subject should be launched in Matignon, Tuesday, she believes that "we have a judicial treatment of violence against women that is not up to a democratic state" in France. And to hope: "The speaking of associations, victims and families of victims of feminicide will perhaps lead the government to take the pulse of this situation."
"Act in a coordinated way so as to avoid a passage to the act"
"Coming to talk about domestic violence is to make society aware that everyone can act and react, because women speak but are not listened to," says Isabelle Steyer. She cites the example of the dedicated number, 3919: "it must be known, but also and especially that the police, gendarmerie and judicial protection can act in a coordinated manner and to avoid a changeover to the act. "
In the viewfinder of the lawyer: the protection orders, supposed to distance the women claiming for violence from their spouse. "This is a situation of a woman in obvious danger, who will meet a judge for family affairs permanence - it is still necessary that there is one every day, which is far from the case in all courts, "she laments. "She is going to solicit an audience that will be contradictory, the aggressor will be summoned, while they still live under the same roof!"
"These women are killed at this time"
"In some courts, as in Bobigny hypersensitization, so an answer in eight days," says Isabelle Steyer. "But in other courts, we have answers in several weeks, these women are killed at that time and we know it," she says, demanding "a real-time protection order".
"There is a general denial and a presumption of innocence that will prevail over the principle of the protection of women and children," concludes the lawyer. "We are sacrificing these women on the altar of the presumption of innocence, we have a misogynistic and biased justice, which will let the women get by, make the 'system D'.