It was one of the promises of the Grenelle against domestic violence. Experienced since September in five departments, anti-reconciliation bracelets to keep violent spouses and ex-spouses away, are now generalized throughout France. The Montauban judicial court has just been equipped with three electronic bracelets, a crucial tool to protect the victims of their violent spouses.
The violent spouse under remote surveillance
This electronic bracelet which attaches to the ankle makes it possible to geolocate violent spouses or ex-spouses and to trigger an alert system. If the bracelet holder gets too close within a radius of one to 10 km in the alert zone, up to 20 km in a pre-alert zone according to the judge’s decision, he will be immediately contacted by a remote assistance platform. If he does not respond or turn back, the police are alerted. The victim who is equipped with a telephone is also alerted to his presence.
– Olivier Lebrun
The victim is alerted in the event of an approach
After the telephone “serious danger” which allowed victims of violence to alert the police, this bracelet keeps the violent partner away, and that changes everything according to Nadège Frauciel, the association’s coordinator “France Victim” in the Tarn-et-Garonne. “With the phone” serious danger “it was up to the victim to alert the presence of her abusive partner, she looks behind her shoulder when she leaves the house to see if anyone is there. With the bracelet anti-distancing, she can live in peace, because if there is danger, she is warned. She feels safe, because it is she who is called, who is alerted. “
“The bracelet makes it possible to remove the perpetrator of the violence. The device will secure the victim who can stay in her home if she wishes, and she will have the security that she will be quiet there, something that was not the case with a simple distance from the author “, adds Brigitte Lamauri, the delegate for women’s rights in Tarn-et-Garonne. “This guarantee of peace of mind will result in the victim being informed of the penetration of the perpetrator in this radius of action which is prohibited. It can be the return to a normal life while keeping the same place of life, the same place of schooling for the children. “
“It is also a guarantee against recidivism, because the author of the violence will find it difficult to transgress this anti-approach device. Everything will have been put in place through this double alert to prevent him from going any more ready. “
The bracelet has proven itself in Spain
The device in force for 12 years in Spain where the anti-rapprochement bracelet has reduced the number of feminicides and violence within couples. “On the other side of the Pyrenees, there are 40 feminicides per year while in France we are still at 130 to 160 feminicides depending on the year” notes Brigitte Lamauri.
