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Domestic violence: in Nantes, a long-term experience brings together victims and perpetrators around a table

2021-11-24T18:34:43.402Z


REPORT - Started a year ago, this experiment allows victims of domestic violence to seek answers. " After all that, what can we say?" This father remains speechless. Sentenced for domestic violence, he has just participated in a support group as part of an experiment in “restorative justice” conducted for a year under the leadership of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Nantes prosecutor's office. It was made possible by a circular of March 2017, in application of the law on the individua


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After all that, what can we say?"

This father remains speechless.

Sentenced for domestic violence, he has just participated in a support group as part of an experiment in “restorative justice” conducted for a year under the leadership of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Nantes prosecutor's office.

It was made possible by a circular of March 2017, in application of the law on the individualization of sentences of August 2014.

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Its particularity: to put around the same table three women and three men who have no other connection than having been victims and perpetrators of domestic violence.

This Tuesday took place the last meeting, during which the participants and the organizers - associations, magistrates and gendarmes - drew an initial assessment.

They all remember the first two group sessions of more than three hours, in May and June, which turned out to be trying.

The three women victims then detailed all the violence they had

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Source: lefigaro

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