2023-05-03 18:00:32
Leave ” ground “of “what is already done somewhere” and question “what works, and what works less well” in the legal treatment of domestic violence. It is this pragmatic approach that guided Renaissance MP for Val-d’Oise Emilie Chandler and Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) senator from Yonne Dominique Vérien for six months, appointed on September 28, 2022 by the Prime Minister , Elisabeth Borne, of a mission on this subject. The two parliamentarians tried to reproduce the victim’s journey from “as long as she authorizes herself to speak or to initiate a procedure by filing a complaint or referral to the public prosecutor’s office following the finding of the offense before filing her complaint”.
Fifty-nine proposals appear in their final report. So many leads that should be presented in the coming days, with the official submission of the report to the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, and to the Minister Delegate for Equality between Women and Men, Isabelle Rome. Some proposals have already been taken up after the presentation of the first conclusions of the two parliamentarians, mid-term, and announced on March 8 by Mme Terminal: the generalization of women’s centers attached to hospitals, the possibility of granting a protection order within 24 hours, and above all the creation of “specialized poles” in domestic violence in the courts.
Other measures could inspire the public authorities to improve the protection of victims and, ultimately, to reduce this violence, which represents a mass dispute. As the parliamentarians point out, the weight of domestic violence in judicial activity has “doubled between 2017 and 2021, from 4% to 8%”. Confronted with this growth, the courts have organized themselves, in a variable way, under the impetus of the Grenelle against domestic violence, in 2019. Good practices, relying a lot on the investment of magistrates, have developed, following the example specialized hearings set up at the Bobigny court or the court project to better combat violence against women at the Châlons-en-Champagne court, both mentioned in the report.
The two authors however note a great disparity according to the territories, which they attribute in the first place “to a lack of management of this aspect of public policy”. To respond to this, they plead for the creation of a national steering body in the form of an inter-ministerial delegation, endowed with a special fund. “We need someone who is driving this public policy for real and can whip when things are not moving forward”summarizes prosaically Dominique Vérien.
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