In Avignon and Carpentras, the Minister of the Interior hammered, Thursday, October 21, the instructions sent to all the prefects: to ensure a better management of the victims.
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This is an express after-sales service. Thursday, October 21, in the aftermath of the prefects of a telegram specifying good practices in the collection and processing of complaints of violence against women and intrafamily violence, the Minister of the Interior visited commissioners and gendarmeries Vaucluse to ensure that the message had been received. And put, says his entourage, “a healthy pressure” on the services. The same day, the content of this document to the least directive and cosigned by Marlene Schiappa, Minister responsible for citizenship, had opportunly leaked in several media. Objective assigned to police and gendarmes: “Continue effort (…) regardless of the circumstances of the facts”. For this, eight recommendations that are mainly reminiscent of the previous instructions or provisions already in force, such as the proscription of current hands, the mandatory welcome of any third party accompanying the victim or the gynecological examination “systematically envisaged” in case of abuse. . In hollow, such a list focuses mainly on the persistence of the considerable difficulties experienced by some victims when they intend to file a complaint.
Throughout a marathon day, from the Office of the Commissioner of Avignon to that of Carpentras and in two gendarmeries, Gérald Darmanin practiced a kind of pedagogy by pounding, subjecting his different interlocutors to a fire of questions, tirelessly Repeated from one place to another: “If a victim comes at 2 o’clock in the morning, who receives it?”, “They are informed of their rights, the victims?”, “And the prosecution, he follows?” Not surprisingly, the police ensure that everything happens in strict compliance with texts. “Here, we do not really see a problem,” says an official. “Still, makes the minister wondered the six members of the Avignon Family Protection Group, it is not forbidden to think that it happens in some commissioners, right?”
Demining operation
For the minister, such a demining operation became indispensable while hundreds of testimonials gathered under the word #doublepeine for nearly a month of bad and persistent police practices in the field of collection and processing of complaints Violence against women, yet decreed great cause of the five-year. Hence the energetic telegram, coupled with a visit to specialized services, the necessary steps as soon as the forum “We must finish with the alea of the complaint” in the Sunday log , October 9th. In this text, one hundred lawyers, a very large majority of women, called for an “immediate national awareness” against the case of “many” victims “whose complaint is not received” or is only After “a long wait, clumsy remarks or the impossibility of being immediately examined by the medico-judicial units”. Editors and editors also saw a gap of the law, which evokes the possibility for a victim of being accompanied by a third party but does not expressly devote the right to be assisted by a lawyer – a mention recorded since Wednesday in The Bill on Trust in Justice.
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