Paris (AFP)
The Minister of Justice, questioned Friday on the death of a 40-year-old woman whose husband was indicted in Alsace, said the system does not "work" to protect women.
"I'm not saying we did not do anything," Nicole Belloubet told LCI, "I'm not saying that the magistrates have failed, I'm just saying that collectively our system is not working. to protect these women, and that it's a drama. "
On Sunday night, the 40-year-old woman who was fatally wounded with a knife died, under the eyes of her daughter. The latter accused her companion - since indicted and imprisoned - of having stabbed several times at her mother's neck and chest.
The victim had already lodged a complaint, the judge had been seized, and the companion was summoned by the court on 10 December.
"This reaction was not up to the violence suffered by this woman," said Nicole Belloubet. "In terms of response time and probably in terms of intensity, because there was an answer, and it did not correspond to the reality of the facts".
"This is what must be measured and it is the right decision to be taken," said the minister, referring in particular to the proposal for a law under consideration in Parliament which aims to speed up the deadlines. for protection orders.
Nicole Belloubet recognized a "loophole" in protective devices. "The police and the gendarmes do not work fast enough with the justice," she said, "and we do not work enough with the associations".
In 2018, 121 women were killed in domestic violence, according to the Interior Ministry.
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