at the women’s house in Saint-Denis, we hope that the measures announced will “give confidence in justice”

Inside the Saint-Denis women’s house (in Seine-Saint-Denis), a house with colored walls, located right next to the hospital, a woman in a white coat rushes from one room to the The other is Ghada Hatem, obstetrician-gynecologist and director of the establishment. This structure welcomes women victims of violence and offers them medical, social and legal support. This women’s home is equipped with an operating theater to perform medical procedures under local anesthesia or abortions, but also a specific place for the police to collect complaints from patients. In four years, 200 women have been able to denounce their violent spouse.

The hope of “being safe sooner”

One of the desired measures, namely the creation of a center dedicated to domestic violence in each court, can help, believes the director. This development can “Maybe give these women more faith in justice by telling them: ‘Now it’s better than before.’ A way to give them of “the hope and, one day perhaps, the guarantee that their cases will be processed more quickly. That they will be safer, faster and more efficiently.”

>> Domestic violence: specialized centres, emergency protection orders… The government details a series of measures

Based on a parliamentary report, the Keeper of the Seals specifies, Monday, May 22, a series of measures against domestic violence. Beyond the creation of intra-family violence centers in each court, Éric Dupond-Moretti also evokes the deployment of new, more efficient anti-reconciliation bracelets, as well as the creation of an immediate protection order to evict violent spouses from the home. 24 hours.

One women’s center per department within two years

Ghada Hatem also believes that it is necessary to release funds to develop branches of women’s houses everywhere. On this point, the government undertakes to open one per department within two years. Bénédicte, nanny at the women’s home in Saint-Denis, believes that recruitment for this type of position must be accelerated.. “Mums have an easier time talking with the workers than when there are children, she says. We must not forget that a baby, a two-year-old child or a ten-year-old child understands in his own way. When they are entrusted to a nanny, the time of an interview, “they don’t suffer, they are fine, they are in their world, they play”emphasizes Bénédicte.

On a bench nearby, Justine is waiting for her psychologist. Victim of humiliations and blows from her ex-husband, she would like “speed things up in court.” She is in favor of women’s homes “because the separation has to take place. This violent relationship weakened me a lot and I needed to be accompanied by these people, to be able to relearn if only to accept my body, and to readjust socially, because I was cut off from the world.” This support also allows Justine to maintain her complaint, which she has hesitated to withdraw several times.