They are invisible and ruin the lives of victims over the long term.
Domestic violence is unfortunately not just physical.
The Solidarité Femmes association, which runs the emergency number 39 19, listed six in all: verbal, psychological, physical, sexual, economic and administrative violence.
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Over the calls and confidences, she even established percentages for each of them.
Economic violence comes back with insistence in 20% of discussions with victims.
It is a way for the perpetrator to establish his grip on the victim.
“This figure is a threshold rather than a ceiling,
underlines Françoise Brié, general manager of 39 19,
because it is not certain that all the victims think of talking to us about it.
We believe that this violence, consisting of the economic precariousness of the victims, concerns many more cases ”
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Their exact evaluation is all the more difficult to estimate as they do not fit into the
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