Among the measures demanded by Jean-Marie Salanova, the central director of public security, to improve monitoring in cases of domestic violence, the “immediate census” of files in their territory, according to an internal note addressed to the territorial directors of the police.
After several feminicides that have caused a stir in recent weeks, the DCSP also asks them to “absorb without delay” the stock of current cases. It is necessary “to prioritize the treatment of these cases”, he writes, including “by the reinforcement of investigators who will be diverted from their usual missionary perimeter”.
“A necessarily urgent character”
The objective is to treat in “real time” and in a “systematic way” these facts whose “character is necessarily urgent”. Mr. Salanova also calls for “without delay” to address complaints and handbooks to the prosecution, and to mention this sending in the procedure.
In a circular recently sent to the courts, the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, for his part, requested an “inventory” of “all the files” of people convicted of domestic violence, to identify those whose “background and personality “would make” necessary “the granting of an anti-rapprochement bracelet which has not yet been issued.
Acceleration of the deployment of anti-reconciliation bracelets
In another circular sent last week, he asks – again – an acceleration of the deployment of anti-rapprochement bracelets, flagship device of the Grenelle which has proven its worth in Spain.
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The Chancellery has 1,000 bracelets, but since the launch of the device last fall, only 76 have been “prescribed” and 45 men were equipped in early May, according to the ministry.
Several cases pointed out failures
These notes come after several feminicides where questions have arisen about the failures of the police or judicial services in particular.
Two inspection missions were thus carried out by the government: one after the death on May 23 in Hayange (Moselle) of a 22-year-old woman killed by her boyfriend ; the other on May 7, after the death of a woman, burned alive in Mérignac (Gironde) by her husband, who was serving a sentence for domestic violence (but did not wear an anti-reconciliation bracelet). The results are expected on June 10.
The first conclusions of the Mérignac feminicide inspection mission had pointed to a “series of failures” on the part of the various stakeholders (police, justice, prison administration) in monitoring the husband.
According to the latest count of the #NousToutes collective, 46 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse in 2021. In 2020, 100 feminicides had been identified.
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