The number of national calls for women victims of domestic violence has seen the number of its calls explode since the Grenelle against domestic violence, was learned Friday at the State Secretariat for Equality between women and men.
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This anonymous and free listening service received 1,661 calls on Tuesday, September 3, launch day of the Grenelle, and 1,134 on Wednesday 4, more than 4 times more than usual, he said in a statement. on the "first results of the Grenelle".
On average, the 3919 receives 250 calls on weekdays, nearly 150 on Saturdays and a hundred on Sundays, said Françoise Brié, Executive Director of the National Federation of Women's Solidarity (FNSF), which manages this line. Already on September 2, on the eve of a "Grenelle" that brought together ministers, associations and victims at Matignon to discuss the scourge of domestic violence, the 3919 had recorded 638 calls.
"It's enormous"
"After each communication campaign, the day after each March 8th or November 25th, we know peaks of calls, but that's even more marked: 1,600 calls in one day, it's huge", continued Françoise Brié , not remembering if this figure had already been reached in the past.
The government has launched a broad communication campaign called #React3919 to raise awareness of this issue. The FNSF received an additional allocation of 120,000 euros to cope with the increase in calls, which allowed it to spend 29 to 33 listeners, added Françoise Brié.
President Emmanuel Macron went on Tuesday at the premises of 3919. He notably witnessed a telephone conversation between a woman in distress and a gendarme, who refused to accompany her to her home for procedural reasons. The national gendarmerie announced the opening of an administrative investigation.