Domestic violence: in Nantes, the Citad'elles reception center is looking for solutions

4/12/2020, 7:58:12 PM

The number of telephone requests increases crescendo over the days.

Usually, the area around the Beaulieu shopping center, on the island of the same name, in Nantes, is teeming with people at the end of the day. Now empty, they leave more visible than usual the secure entrance to Citad'elles, at the foot of a brand new building. New in France, this place of reception, listening and monitoring of women and their children victims of violence opened at the end of November. And continues to be so, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, despite the confinement, in "appropriate sanitary conditions" . A choice of the mayor Johanna Rolland (PS): "It is out of the question that we leave women in danger alone, without care, in this period" .

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The number of women presenting themselves to the “route coordinators”, at the entrance to a large 750 m² plateau, has decreased. They are two a day now, against four before March 15. On the other hand, the number of telephone requests increases, it crescendo over the days, to reach 240 in all. "The first week, we put preventively