Faster, and sometimes more lasting, decisions.
The National Assembly unanimously approved Tuesday evening the creation of a new tool for protecting victims of domestic violence, a “provisional immediate protection order” allowing the judge to pronounce emergency measures within 24 hours.
Adopted at first reading, the bill must continue its journey in the Senate.
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, even without complaint from the alleged victim.
The bill “fills this gap of six days”, underlines its instigator, Renaissance MP Émilie Chandler, in order to avoid further violence and feminicides.
It comes from work carried out with centrist senator Dominique Vérien, in the bright red plan, “red for blood and bright for intra-family violence”, explains Émilie Chandler.
Questions about the feasibility of the measures
“Only the public prosecutor will be able to refer the matter to the family affairs judge to request this provisional order.
He will be able to do this only if a request for a protection order has previously been made,” specifies the Macronist.
Its text also extends from six to twelve months the initial duration of the measures imposed in a traditional protection order.
“Extending the duration of the protection order can prove to be entirely appropriate in very conflictual situations,” underlined Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti, who “fully supports” this text.
The bill received a consensual reception, despite reservations about its application.
It “goes in the right direction”, but “remains anecdotal”.
“The new protection system is unachievable in the current state of our judicial fabric.
The courts are still understaffed and completely overloaded,” launched Insoumise Pascale Martin.
According to official figures, 118 women were killed by a spouse or ex in 2022, and 122 in 2021.