The National Assembly unanimously approved Tuesday evening the creation of a new tool for protecting victims of domestic violence. A “provisional immediate protection order’ will allow the judge to pronounce emergency measures within 24 hours.
The system complements the current protection order, with which the family court judge has six days to order measures such as a ban on making contact, going to certain places or possessing a weapon. The bill “fills this gap of six days”, underlines its instigator, Renaissance MP Émilie Chandler.