a parliamentary report submitted to the Keeper of the Seals advocates the creation of specialized centers in the courts

How to improve the legal treatment of domestic violence? To make this ambition a reality, Renaissance MP Emilie Chandler and UDI Senator Dominique Vérien are submitting, on Monday, May 22, a report of more than 160 pages including 59 recommendations to the Keeper of the Seals, Éric Dupond-Moretti, and to the Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister in charge of Equality between women and men, Isabelle Rome. PMore than 300 hearings of legal actors and numerous trips to jurisdictions of different sizes were carried out.

>> A parliamentary report proposes 59 measures to combat domestic violence

The document, which draws up an inventory of the response provided to victims, pleads in particular for the creation of specialized centers in the courts allowing the constitution of dedicated teams trained in the treatment of cases of intra-family violence. Pointing “the great difficulty of putting in place a global and protective system in a systematic way”, Ihe authors call for the development of the emergency sector in the courts and the standardization of practices.

Allow “a global approach to the situation”

The report notes that “there coordination of the actors stay essential For allow of TO DO THE bridge between THE different SKILLS jurisdictional (civil – family court judge, children’s judge – And criminal – parquet, judge instruction, sentence enforcement judges –) but also For share information around of the circumstances of domestic violence In there duration”. The report points out: “It’s about getting out of the logic of responding to an act of violence to enter into a global approach to the situation.”

According to parliamentarians, “he East also necessary of better design there traffic of I‘information between THE actors judicial around of circumstances in course of treatment”. Likewise, “the organization of the public prosecutor’s office must also integrate communication between poles”. “This center will be fed by IT tools, in particular with a specific file, to facilitate the work of all judicial actors when they have to collect data”, specifies the Chancellery, which also highlights the setting up of a “dedicated and trained team”.

Guest of France 3, on March 6, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced the establishment of “specialized poles” in domestic violence in the courts, in order to “respond locally” to the difficulties of women victims. “The objective is to have a complete response for these women who are victims of violence”, she continued.