A child. (Drawing) – Rafael Ben Ari / Newscom / SIPA
A scary statement. “+ 89% is the increase in the number of calls to 119 last week. “This was announced on Wednesday by the Secretary of State for Child protection Adrien Taquet during the questioning session with the government in the Senate. For the week of April 13 to 19, the number of calls received was 14,531 compared to 7,674 over the same period in April 2019, an increase of 89.35%, it was specified at the end of the day in a press release
Adrien Taquet and Ministers of Justice and the Interior. During normal periods, the 119, invisible on the telephone records, receives some 700 calls per day.
“This does not surprise us, it is a sign of the increase in violence during this period of containment. But I also want to see there the sign, the barometer, of our increased vigilance, “commented the secretary of state.
A telephone line and allo119.gouv.fr
Calls by neighbors increased by 84% over the previous year, calls by young people themselves who were in danger by 80%, and calls by fellow workers worried about a friend 58%. The share of urgent calls, forwarded as a priority to the Cells for the collection of worrying information so that the departmental services can intervene quickly, also jumped by 60%.
In early April, to respond to risks of domestic violence caused by confinement, the telephone line was doubled with an Internet reporting service (allo119.gouv.fr). This device, intended for victims who could not isolate themselves to call for help, collects more than 200 referrals every week, said Adrien Taquet.
92 children placed in emergency
Before the Senate, he said that he had “seized all the departments” so that the staff of the cells for collecting worrying information would be reinforced and so that social workers could conduct inquiries in families where the children were in danger.
Since March 16, interventions by the police or home gendarmerie services for different family increased by 48%, and nearly 92 children were placed in emergency, specify in the press release Nicole Belloubet and Christophe Castaner.
Each year in France, it is estimated that a child dies every five days as a result of domestic violence and some 52,000 minors are subjected to violence, ill-treatment or abandonment.
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