The National Assembly rejects automatic ineligibility for perpetrators of domestic violence

The National Assembly rejected, on the evening of Tuesday, March 7, a Renaissance bill which intended to impose a penalty of ineligibility on more perpetrators of violence, in particular domestic or intra-family. The deputies rejected the text carried by the president of the majority group, Aurore Bergé, by 140 votes to 113, with 14 abstentions.

Aurore Bergé had presented her text at the time of the conviction for domestic violence of the deputy of La France insoumise, Adrien Quatennens. He aimed to extend the mandatory additional penalty of ineligibility to a series of aggravated acts of violence: those committed on a minor under the age of 15, a vulnerable person, the spouse, with a weapon, or even in the event of racist motivation. The cases concerned by the text are those where the violence has led to total incapacity for work of less than or equal to 8 days.

accused of“instrumentalization” and D’“opportunism” by the oppositions, the deputy assured to be “sincere”. “I know exactly what I’m talking about when I talk about domestic violence”, replied the elected representative of Yvelines, obviously very moved under the boos of part of the hemicycle. Before adding:“Hearing, intervention after intervention, questioning the sincerity which is mine on this fight, as you did, I cannot let it pass”.