The Senate unanimously voted on a PS amendment on Tuesday so that, as part of the fight against the coronavirus epidemic, women victims of domestic violence cannot be placed in quarantine or in isolation with their violent spouse .
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"Including if violence is presumed"
This amendment was defended by former PS Minister of Families Laurence Rossignol during the first reading examination of the bill extending the state of health emergency, which notably provides for quarantine and isolation measures to cut the Covid-19 chain of contamination. Period particularly at risk for women and children victims of violence, confinement has led to a 40% increase in police interventions at home, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
Victims of domestic violence "may not be quarantined, placed and kept in solitary confinement in the same home as the perpetrator, including if the violence is suspected," said the amendment. He specifies that "if the eviction of the violent spouse cannot be executed, a place of accommodation allowing the respect of their private and family life is allocated to them".
"It's worth repeating it in law"
"I have learned to be wary of the obvious," argued Laurence Rossignol, while Health Minister Olivier Véran argued that the provision "is already in the law" because "it is common law". The Minister, however, moved from a first opinion of "wisdom", with "legal reservations", to a "final opinion favorable" to the amendment, "so as to send a signal".
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"It is good that in this particular period, special provisions apply in favor of women, and more rarely of men, victims of conjugal violence", said rapporteur LR Philippe Bas, president of the Law Commission . "It is worth repeating in law," said Laurence Rossignol, given "what is happening at the moment in a number of homes" and given "the difficulty in moving from the observation of violence to a protective measure in a context where justice does not work well and where accommodation solutions are saturated. "