“Recording” of people suspected of sexual violence: an ineffective measure that violates freedoms?

Emmanuel Macron proposed, this Friday, the creation of an administrative file like the one that exists for S files. A measure prejudicial to the presumption of innocence and ineffective, according to Audrey Darsonville, professor of criminal law.

He incorporates it into his “written undertakings”. Emmanuel Macron announced this Friday on France Info that he intended to create an administrative file listing people suspected of sexist and sexual violence, like the S files (for “state security”). It would concern “people who are known to be likely to be violent, because there have already been alerts”, explained the candidate president. Unlike the file of perpetrators of sexual or violent offenses (Fijais), which already lists convicted persons, “handrails, complaints that did not result in a conviction” would suffice to appear in this new file.

If these criteria are to be believed, the current Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, could therefore see his name registered there, he who was the subject of a complaint for rape, for which the Paris prosecutor’s office requested a no -place. According to Audrey Darsonville, professor of criminal law at the University of Paris-Nanterre, this new file would undermine the presumption of innocence and fundamental freedoms, in addition to being ineffective.

What would a new administrative file bring to the fight against gender-based and sexual violence?

I don’t really see. A judicial file, the Fijais already lists…