This Monday, March 11, the work of the joint committee begins, made up of seven senators and seven deputies. The committee will agree to the vote on a law to better protect and support child victims and co-victims of domestic violence. In their investigation, the France victims federation calls for better care for orphans of femicide.
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Thirty-three victims of femicide left behind their children, according to 2022 figures from France victims. For Jérôme Moreau, spokesperson for this association, the care for children who saw their mothers killed by their fathers is still insufficient.
“ We must find replacement mechanisms for this parental authority. The father, when he is violent – in 20% of cases, the spouse commits suicide after feminicide – and when he is still alive, he must not be able to have the slightest influence on education and on life. her child’s future. And so we have to move very quickly, and we have to be able to urgently activate these devices, things which today are impossible. »
“ Direct the minor child witness »
Among the measures, the feminicide protocol must be activated as quickly as possible: “ It was generalized in 2022, and it organizes care for minors by considering that the child is a co-victim, and that the prosecutor must be able to direct the minor child who witnesses the facts, in particular by entrusting him to social assistance to childhood, and with an orientation to the hospital service. »
Today it is up to parliamentarians French to change the law to better protect these child victims of feminicide.
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