An alert system for women victims of violence by their spouses will be set up in pharmacies during this period of confinement, Christophe Castaner announced on Thursday 26 March.
Asked about France 2, the interior minister noted that the containment put in place since March 17 to stem the coronavirus epidemic had resulted in an increase in domestic violence.
“In the gendarmerie zone”, this violence increased by “32 % In a week “, he said, and, in the Paris Prefecture of Police area, they were up “36 % In a week “.
To allow women victims to call for help, Christophe Castaner explained that with the National Order of Pharmacists it was decided to set up a system within pharmacies to alert the police.
“Emergency” intervention by the police
for example “In the pharmacy, when the woman who can be beaten goes without her husband” to get drugs, she has to “May give the alert”, he explained. In the event that her husband is with her, the Minister has raised the possibility that she uses a ” coded “, ” for example : mask 19 “. The use of a code is a system already in place in Spain.
Instructions will be given so that the police can “Intervene in emergency”, he said, assuring that the fight against domestic violence was ” a priority “.
“With Marlène Schiappa [ la secrétaire d’Etat chargée de l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes] tomorrow [vendredi] we will move forward so that it is everywhere on the national territory one of the means of protection ”, he said.
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