Pécresse pleads for a jurisdiction dedicated to domestic violence

The LR presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse pledged on Tuesday to fight against violence against women, to create if she is elected a specialized court on “violence within the family” and to “increase by 50% in five years the budget of the courts ”. “The subject of domestic violence has never been so present in the public debate” but this is “very far from sufficient”, affirm in a tribune to the World the candidate and her spokesperson Aurélien Pradié, criticizing the “shortcomings” of the government on the subject.

“One of our first texts will involve the creation of a specialized jurisdiction, entirely devoted to the treatment of violence within the family”, they add, before a trip Tuesday afternoon to Pantin with an association fighting against violence against women. This jurisdiction, which they compare to that set up in 1945 for children, will be “present throughout the territory” and capable “of deciding quickly and installing a specific justice system for this scourge”.

“A major breakthrough”

“This is a major step forward which will be made possible by the commitment to increase the budget of the courts by 50% in five years”, they say in the platform signed “with the support of all the deputies and senators Les Républicains ”. This specialized jurisdiction will make it possible in particular “to better respect the six-day deadline” for issuing protection orders and to “target twenty-four hours for the greatest emergencies”, add the candidate and her spokesperson who also want to “increase the number ”of emergency accommodation.

It is also necessary to “better train” police and gendarmes “in the reception and monitoring of women victims of violence”, they specify. A debate “on the application of the law aiming to act against violence within the family” is to be held in principle Tuesday evening in the Assembly, at the request of the LR group. But the debate could be replaced by the subsequent examination of the draft law on the vaccination pass.