The Minister Delegate Marlène Schiappa, who will sign this agreement Thursday at the Ministry of the Interior, estimated Wednesday that this mobilization of public and private actors "for the safety of women is a revolution".
The application includes an alert button in case of aggression and a map of safe places.
All police stations and gendarmerie brigades will be listed there, as well as Monoprix and Monop' stores.
"Security forces in the field will be able to cross-check the reports made on the application with their own data and adapt their strategy if a woman does not feel safe in a given place," the ministry explained in a press release.
Under the terms of their agreement, the Ministry of the Interior undertook to give Monoprix the necessary tools for the reception, care and orientation of women coming to take refuge there.
"We want every woman to be able to take refuge in a safe place wherever she is in France", insisted the Minister Delegate, who added that the government would encourage "other actors in the private sector to join the initiative". .
The president of Monoprix, Jean-Paul Mochet, for his part stressed that his group had "committed for a long time against harassment and violence against women" and said he was "proud to work hand in hand" with the ministry. and the Umay application by "putting its network at the service of safer streets in the 250 cities where it is installed".
Pauline Vanderquand, founder of the application, was delighted that Umay was going to "play a key role" and considered "essential" a mobilization of all against street harassment.
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