The sexual and gender-based violence online reporting platform recorded a 60% increase in calls from victims during the second confinement compared to normal, Marlène Schiappa announced on Saturday, January 9.
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"
Even if
[the second confinement]
was less rigorous than the first, paradoxically we see that it has recorded more reports,
" said the Minister for Citizenship in an interview posted on the
Parisian
site
.
"
This increase was 40% last spring
", during the first confinement, recalled Ms. Schiappa.
The minister explains this difference by "
the looming economic and social crisis
" and "
an extremely high level of tension since this fall with fewer decompression valves for people who had to stay at home
".
Launched in the fall of 2018, the arretonslesviolences.gouv.fr platform, made up of a police site in Guyancourt (Yvelines) and a gendarmerie site in Rennes, has treated "
more than 20,000 cats
" in two years, Marlène indicated. Schiappa last November.
These agents, attentive to the victims who can remain anonymous, can direct them to a police station or a gendarmerie brigade for filing a complaint or, in the event of refusal, to specialized associations.
If an immediate threat hangs over the person, a police patrol can be dispatched to intervene on the spot.
Regarding domestic violence, there is also a dedicated telephone line, 3919, managed by the National Federation of Solidarity for Women (FNSF).