The Ministry of the Interior will test a device that will allow the
police
to collect from others the complaint of victims of domestic violence not wishing, by "
fear
", to go to a police station, announced Tuesday, October 12 Gérald Darmanin.
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"
We are going to launch with the Minister Delegate (Marlène Schiappa), from the end of the year, an experiment which will allow in certain departments that the police officers and gendarmes move
" to collect complaints, indicated the Minister of Interior before the National Assembly Law Commission. "
If you are an abused woman and you have chosen to be with your social worker, your friend, your mother, at the town hall and you are afraid of the police station (the welcome we can give you, the look of others, the difficulty of entering a police station, it is never obvious)
”, then the
police
will be able to move, he continued. The list of departments concerned by theexperimentation will be determined "
in the coming days
”, the entourage of the Minister of the Interior told AFP.
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The reception of victims of domestic violence can "
certainly improve
", added Gérald Darmanin, questioned on the subject after a demonstration, Sunday in front of the Montpellier police station, to denounce the poor care of victims of sexual assault .
The lodging of a complaint at the hospital, set up within the framework of the Grenelle of domestic violence, is already tested and should soon be extended to the whole of the territory.
