Thirty-three victims of femicide left orphans behind in 2022. “Less than half of them were supported,” regrets Jérôme Moreau, spokesperson for the France Victimes federation, which is publishing its new survey on monitoring victims of feminicide.
The association denounces “insufficient protection of the rights of minors”, nineteen of whom saw their mother killed before their eyes in 2022. “Often, we stop at finding them accommodation.
It’s a profound error,” laments Jérôme Moreau.
“In cases of spousal femicide, the husband must be separated from the father.
» This sentence that Fabien Arakelian, lawyer at the Hauts-de-Seine bar, used to utter, is chilling.
Chilling, because it means that a man who killed their mother can remain a good father to his children.
Chilling, because it still too often justifies, in the courts, the preservation of paternal authority after conviction for murder.
Today, Me Arakelian no longer pronounces it.
Now involved with the National Union of Families of Feminicides (UNFF), he is fighting to “move the law” which, as it stands, “adds violence to the violence of femicide”.
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