An appalling figure at the start of the year.
While New Year's Eve had passed only a few hours, three women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse in France.
First Éléonore, a 27-year-old soldier, stabbed several times by her 21-year-old husband around 5 a.m. in Chacé (Maine-et-Loire).
Then in the same morning Muriel, 56, was discovered at her home in Labry, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, a knife in her chest.
The murderer ?
His companion in his fifties, who stabbed him several times.
Then Lisa, 46, found in the trunk of a car in Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes.
Her 60-year-old partner allegedly strangled her.
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Three murders that darken the beginning of 2022. Especially since the end of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term, devoted in part to domestic violence, is soon coming to an end. With 113 marital murders in 2021 -
10% more than in 2020
- and the first three victims of this year, feminist associations and collectives have called on the government to react. “
Emmanuel Macron, 2 feminicides in 12 hours. Restarting this count is unbearable, take action
, ”urged the feminist collective
We All
, Saturday on social networks.
Two years after the Grenelle of domestic violence, and some measures taken such as the lifting of medical confidentiality or complaints to others, progress still remains to be made. Dr Gilles Lazimi, general practitioner in Romainville and activist against violence against women and children, still considers them "
insufficient
" with the
Figaro
: "
We must finally take into account the words of women victims and that we Systematically protects them from the moment they file a complaint and from the moment they are in danger
, ”he says.
Indeed, according to the doctor, the laws and the devices are numerous but not sufficiently applied, for lack of means: “
Since 2006, we have the possibility of evicting the violent spouse. Since 2010, we have had the protection order. The parental authority of the violent spouse can be suspended. We can offer a very dangerous telephone ... But it has not been done
”. According to the group Nous tous, "
only 379 anti-rapprochement bracelets have been deployed
" and "
1200 protection orders issued
", while France counts 200,000 victims of domestic violence.
The solution ?
“
Develop the means
”, according to Gilles Lazimi, and in particular three aspects: first by taking into account “
all the complaints of women victims of domestic violence
”.
Then, "
by evicting the violent spouse, with a reminder of the law or a conviction
".
Finally, "
we need emergency accommodation for the victim woman and her children
."
“
Since 2006, there have been 120 murders per year on average.
So about 18,000 in 15 years.
We know that inaction allows these abusers to do whatever they want.
If we do not protect these women, these killings that we could have avoided will continue to happen,
”concludes the doctor.
