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Containment is extended until at least April 15. This process of containment is accompanied by an increase in domestic violence, against which emergency measures are deployed.

"Confinement can be a terrible trap when it locks a family in constant terror of insults, shouts and beatings. (…)" How can victims confined to their homes reach 3919 or the dedicated online platform to victims of violence, when we know that the first sign of domestic violence is the isolation of the victim, deprived of any independent means of communication by his violent companion who has often confiscated his phone and is trying to track down his emails? ” said 172 senators from all walks of life in a column published on the Liberation site.
Since the start of confinement, there has been a resurgence of violence: + 32% of reports of domestic violence in the gendarmerie zone in one week.
Among the first measures, a code name has been put in place in pharmacies: by saying the formula or by asking for a "19" mask, the pharmacist does not warn the police.
To reinforce this still insufficient measure, the spouse being able to prevent his companion from going out to the pharmacy, the device has been extended.
Marlène Schiappa announced Saturday the installation of ephemeral support points in shopping centers. The first ephemeral points will be installed in the Paris region: So Ouest in Levallois-Perret, 4 Temps in La Défense, Carré Sénart in Lieusaint, the Forum des Halles in Paris. "As it is more difficult to get around, we make the support systems go to women ", explains Marlène Schiappa in an interview with Le Parisien.

The State also finances a special fund for associations in the field so that they can adapt quickly to the specifics of the period. An association like En avant toutes notably offers a chat to respond to women victims of violence, in order to be more discreet than on the phone. The government has also set up such a chat: https://www.service-public.fr/cmi.
The Women’s Foundation has also launched a fundraising campaign to also fund emergency actions: relocate the victims, support them, help them meet their basic food needs.


by Mathilde Wattecamps