State tries to mobilize against rising domestic violence

It was the children who raised the alarm. Two girls, 10 and 13 years old, who saw their father shoot their mother on March 23 in Chaniers, Charente-Maritime, before turning the weapon against him. Three days earlier, it was a septuagenarian who was shot dead by her husband in a village in Lot-et-Garonne. "Containment can be a terrible trap when it locks a family in permanent terror of insults, shouts and blows , alert, Monday, in a gallery, 172 senators from all walks of life. At a time when we are deploying immense energy to try to overcome our frustrations, we must imagine what the daily life of victims of violence can be like, all the more in cramped housing: hell. ”

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Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Marlène Schiappa, reported on Sunday that there were "indicators" suggesting "that there would be an increase in domestic violence" since the start of confinement, with " + 32% of reports in the zone

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