Between 150 and 200 people demonstrated Tuesday, December 20 in Blois to denounce the treatment by the police of violence against women, a week after the violent attack on a young woman a few hours after being invited to represent herself later at the police station.
“This reflects our society in which we do not do our work against violence against women. (…) What is fundamental, when you receive a woman, is to know if she is safe. (…) Despite the laws that are made, there is no political awareness of the seriousness of what is done to women“, Estimated Micheline Dupont, of the collective Droit des Femmes 41, at the initiative of the rally.
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The reception of womenis not yet ready», «people lack training“, she regretted in front of the police station. Also present, Even, who did not wish to give his last name, spoke for the collective of the feminist Collages of Blois. “We are here to denounce the inaction of the police“said the young activist.
“When, at 5.30 p.m., she was told to come back the next day, she said she was scared and, unfortunately, she was told that, as it was not the procedure, she would not be escorted home. she. And it was when she got home that it happened. (…) It is not possible for someone to denounce violence, denounce the fear of dying, and not be heard“, she insisted.
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“These failures are systemic, it is not a particular person, it is not the Blois police station. There is a whole system that needs to be reviewed.“, she estimated. The IGPN was seized on Friday after the violent assault of this 24-year-old young woman, struck by her former companion a few hours after presenting herself without having been received at the Blois police station, according to the prefecture of Loir-et-Cher.
The victim, placed in a coma, suffers from “major brain hemorrhagic lesions“, had specified the prosecutor of the Republic of Blois Charlotte Beluet. His former companion, aged 27, was arrested Thursday in Plaisir (Yvelines). He was remanded in custody as part of a criminal investigation for attempted murder.