The Interior Ministry will test a device that will allow the police to collect complaints from victims of domestic violence from others who do not wish, out of “fear”, to go to a police station, Gerald Darmanin announced on Tuesday. “We are going to launch with the Minister Delegate (Marlène Schiappa, Editor’s note), from the end of the year, an experiment which will allow in certain departments that the police officers and gendarmes move” to collect complaints, indicated the Minister of the Interior before the National Assembly Law Commission.
“If you are an abused woman and you have chosen to be with your social worker, your friend, your mother, at the town hall and you are afraid of the police station (the welcome we can give you, the look of others, the difficulty of entering a police station, it is never obvious) ”, then the police will be able to move, he continued. The list of departments concerned by the experiment will be determined “in the coming days”, said the entourage of the Minister of the Interior.
The reception of victims of domestic violence can “certainly improve”, added Gérald Darmanin, questioned on the subject after a demonstration, Sunday in front of the Montpellier police station, to denounce the poor care of victims of sexual assault . The filing of a complaint at the hospital, set up within the framework of the Grenelle of domestic violence, is already tested and should soon be extended to the whole of the territory.