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  • With confinement, domestic violence explodes according to the police and gendarmes of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The phenomenon is national.
  • In Bordeaux, the Collage Féminicides collective put these shock actions on hold and otherwise helps women victims of domestic violence.
  • For the past two weeks, thanks to a network of 300 activists, the collective has managed to quickly find housing for women in "emergency situations".

“We are trying to find additional emergency solutions, to help with the limited means that we have. And this little means is already a lot. A lot for these two women victims of conjugal violence that the Collages Féministes Bordeaux group has helped in the past two weeks. While since the beginning of confinement the sad number of victims continues to increase in Bordeaux as in France, the feminist collective has decided to support women "in emergency situations".

Lila Blin and Charlotte Monasterio, the co-founders, are counting on their network of 300 activists to try to find accommodation for these “abused women who sometimes find themselves without immediate support”. “Our activism, which results in feminist collages, has stopped since confinement. We felt a bit helpless when everything in the press showed that domestic violence was increasing, ”explains Charlotte.

And then the collective is contacted by a journalist who did not know how to advise a woman in danger who had just spoken to her. "We launched a call, found an apartment the same evening and we were able to put it in safety," says Charlotte. The mission was all found.

Women ready to leave their apartment to strangers in need

"We do not want to invisibilize the work of associations, but to be an additional support, a relay," continues the young woman of 28 years. We have no training, but a good network. An emergency solution can be found quickly before redirecting these women to the appropriate authorities. The network is these apartments left empty by activists sometimes confined to their parents, spouses or companions. These women who are ready to leave their cocoon a few nights with strangers in need. And Lila or Charlotte who move (respecting barrier gestures), listen, advise.

"We are well aware of the associative fabric that helps battered women, what to do in the event of violence," explains Charlotte. We also know that calls to 3919 [the listening platform for women victims of violence] have dropped since the beginning of confinement, because it is not easy to make a call near an abusive husband. So we suggest an alternative. "

"A relief and a mini mini victory"

There, all you need is a message on Facebook or on Instagram, a “tag” and everything gets under way. The woman put in safety more than a week ago has since decided to file a complaint, "a relief and a mini mini victory" for Charlotte. And the young activist insisted: "This initiative will only exist during the time of confinement, because the figures show that we need to be numerous in support. "

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In Gironde, interventions for domestic violence increased by 25% in the police zone and by 28% in the gendarmerie zone between March 17 and March 31. An edifying statement which prompted the lawyers of the Bordeaux bar to launch a free emergency line (05.57.77.40.71). Alert points have also been set up in certain pharmacies and supermarkets, the Maison des Femmes remains on call, the alert SMS to 114 and 3919 are still there as the government's reporting platform or cell emergency reception for victims of aggression (Cauva). Finally, the Remuménage workshop offers, according to Charlotte, "also emergency moves".

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