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Feminicides: 90 women killed by their spouses or ex-spouses in 2020

2021-02-02T13:04:40.962Z


The previous year, in 2019, there were 146 feminicides, said Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti. This is a very sharp drop compared to last year. The Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti announced on Tuesday that 90 women had been killed by their spouses or ex-spouses in 2020, a figure well below the 146 feminicides recorded by the government in 2019. In 2020, "106 crimes were perpetrated and 90 victims are women", said the minister in a video posted on Facebook, specifying that "in 2019,


This is a very sharp drop compared to last year.

The Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti announced on Tuesday that 90 women had been killed by their spouses or ex-spouses in 2020, a figure well below the 146 feminicides recorded by the government in 2019.

In 2020, "106 crimes were perpetrated and 90 victims are women", said the minister in a video posted on Facebook, specifying that "in 2019, 173 crimes were committed and 146 women were victims of these marital crimes ".

"We have obtained these results, they are still too modest but they are bearers of hope", he commented.

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"Of course that each homicide, that each violence is a failure with the dramatic human consequences that one imagines, a failure for our whole society, it is a failure for the Ministry of Justice", also underlined the guard. of the Seals.

Too early to see it as a lasting trend

The ultimate stage in the violence suffered by more than 200,000 women per year, feminicides increased sharply in 2019 (25 more than in 2018).

The figure for 2020 is the lowest since the government began counting feminicides in 2006, but associations agree that it is still too early to see a lasting trend.

According to the elements collected by AFP, which studied for 2019 and 2020 all cases of suspected feminicides in France, the murders of women by their spouses or exs have not particularly decreased during confinements linked to the Covid health crisis -19.

On the other hand, the coronavirus epidemic and its periods of confinement have highlighted the importance of the violence suffered by women and children in their homes, boosting reports of these facts.

The considerable drop in the number of femicides "is undoubtedly due to the view that the whole of society bears on this domestic violence and these heinous crimes, it also depends on the work of associations", also insisted Eric Dupond-Moretti.

“1260 serious danger telephones” distributed

"It is still due to the means that the Ministry of Justice has mobilized to fight against this violence", he added, citing the deployment of anti-reconciliation bracelets (January 17 to 18), the "1260 telephones serious danger of 'ores and already distributed' and the expulsion orders allowing the eviction of the violent spouse's home.

“Of course, we still need additional resources and we will focus on them,” he promised.

Sign that this scourge has become major in society, the Chancellery requested for the first time in 2020 systematic feedback to the general prosecutors for each domestic homicide, in order to have "a more precise follow-up" of these murders and "to evaluate the impact of the Grenelle measures ”.

This is the first time that the Chancellery has announced figures.

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After a strong association mobilization, a "Grenelle" to fight against domestic violence had resulted at the end of 2019 in around forty measures, among which the deployment of anti-reunification bracelets for violent spouses or ex-spouses or "lessons learned" Between professionals concerned after each feminicide.

Source: leparis

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