Women victims of domestic violence can now, for this reason, unlock their savings in advance, for example to more easily flee their attacker by moving, according to a decree published in the Official Journal on Saturday.
"Slam the door and run away"
This measure was announced last November during the "Grenelle" campaign against domestic violence. The aim was, then explained the services of Secretary of State Marlène Schiappa, to allow women victims "to have access to funds within a short time to cope with the material changes imposed by their situation, for example if they are forced to move. "
This provision responds to situations of "emergency", where women need to be financially more independent when they want to "slam the door and save themselves", had for its part argued the Minister of Labor, Muriel Pénicaud. Concretely, the decree published on Saturday creates a new reason for unblocking employee savings in advance. Besides a marriage, a PACS, the arrival of a third child, a divorce or a separation, this release will now be possible in the event of "violence committed against the person concerned by her spouse, her partner or her partner bound by a pact civil solidarity, or his former spouse, partner or partner ".
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To benefit from it, the employee must have obtained from a judge that he issue her a "protection order" prohibiting her abusive spouse from entering into contact with her or her relatives. Unblocking will also be possible if the acts of violence are the subject of judicial information, a referral to a court, an indictment, even a non-final conviction, an alternative to prosecution or of a penal composition.
"Always good to take for those who can benefit from it"
This measure, "it is always good to take for those who can benefit from it," commented to AFP Françoise Brié, the National Federation of Women Solidarity (FNSF), which manages the line of calls to 3919. D 'As much as "precariousness is an aggravating factor to get out of the violence", she added. Domestic violence "affects all socioeconomic categories, including working women and those with wage savings", observed Françoise Brié.
But a large number of women will, by definition, not be able to benefit from this measure, since only 51% of the victims have a job. By comparison, 72% of violent spouses work: an "inequality of resources" three times more marked than in the general population, according to the association manager.