All emergency services under the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) are getting involved: from October 4, victims of domestic violence can file a complaint against their attacker directly within these services, without having to go to a police station. A ” little step “ but who signs a “collective mobilization”underlined Nicolas Revel, boss of the AP-HP, by initialing this Wednesday, with Laurent Nuñez, prefect of police of Paris, Laure Beccuau, public prosecutor of Paris, Pascal Prache, prosecutor of Nanterre, Eric Mathais, prosecutor de Bobigny, and Stéphane Hardouin, prosecutor of Créteil, an agreement generalizing the system to all emergencies of the hospital flagship.
Enough to facilitate, for victims, the process of filing a complaint in the “protective framework that is the hospital”defended Mr. Revel in front of the press, while making the community of caregivers “more attentive to detection” of these situations.
From the Hôtel-Dieu (Paris 4e) in Ambroise-Paré (Boulogne-Billancourt), de la Pitié-Salpêtrière (Paris 13e) to Beaujon (Clichy), via Robert-Debré (Paris 19e), a total of sixteen services in the Ile-de-France region are organized in this way. Three of them – the emergency rooms of Saint-Antoine hospitals (Paris 12e), Tenon (Paris 20e) and Henri-Mondor (Créteil) – have already been experimenting with this health-police-justice rapprochement for two to three years, through a temporary agreement, which has therefore just been generalized. The results, for them, are positive: 46 complaints (30 in Paris, 16 in Créteil) were able to be recorded through this means. Complaints which, according to the signatories of the convention, could never have been filed, if there had not been the possibility of doing so “in complete confidentiality” And “in situ”.
Two almost simultaneous processes
Hélène Goulet, head of emergencies at Tenon, testifies: a “certain proportion” of victims – the vast majority of them women – despite everything continue to refuse to file a complaint even when it is offered to them to formalize it “in the walls”. Because the attacker is not far away – at the marital home, or even at the hospital; because the victims are in a state of shock and injured, we explain to the AP-HP. But others, who went through the service she runs, accepted: “We then notify the police station, we provide a roomexplains the doctor. We fulfill our obligations as caregivers [la prise en charge médicale], and the police, at the same time, can collect the complaint and the evidence. The two processes occur almost at the same time. »
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