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Since the beginning of the summer, at the Cateau-Cambrésis hospital in the North, women admitted to the emergency room after violence suffered by their spouse have been able to file a complaint within the hospital itself. It is the gendarmes who move in the establishment to collect these complaints and implement a procedure, when they are alerted by the doctors. This makes it possible, among other things, to "free" certain women from the grip of their violent partner. An experience that the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti came to observe on the spot, Thursday, and which could be generalized throughout France.
"Very often immediate"
When the first medical care has been provided, after an interview with a psychologist, there is a small office in the heart of emergencies, which the department head Benjamin Paule shows to the minister Eric Dupond-Moretti. A device so that "the gendarmes can come to the victims, here, to set up the filing of complaints. It is very often immediate," he adds.
At the Cateau-Cambrésis hospital, all State services work hand in hand to provide human and effective support to women victims of violence:
- doctors
- magistrates
- social services
- gendarmerie
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Avoid a "leak" of patients
This care within the hospital itself prevents women victims from returning home at the mercy of the violent partner. "There are inevitably on the way women who will suffer the influence of their companion or their family, who will not succeed in pushing the door of the gendarmerie or the police station because it is complicated", recognizes Claire Dreyfus , referring midwife. "There, we avoid all this leakage of patients."
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"Until there is a measure of removal of the violent spouse", these women, often mothers of families, "can be accommodated temporarily in the premises of the maternity. So they are reassured, less anxious", specifies Carine Wanegue , social worker.
In the emergency room of this hospital, the gendarmes record two to three complaints every week from beaten women.