The domestic violence, its development reasons and its repercussions on society top France’s priorities nowadays. Hence, the state has launched an extended campaign against this phenomenon from September 3 to November 25.
According to latest figures, last year, 121 women were killed in France in these circumstances, equating to one death every three days. So far this year, at least 101 women have been killed by a current or former partner.
Those scary figures suggest another unspecified fact that those women who are subjected to wounds, beatings and psychological tragedies will inevitably be in the thousands...
“Today, in our country, woman, our fellow citizens, die strangled, stabbed, burned alive, beaten every two or three day,” French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said. In Western Europe, France is said to be among the countries with the highest rate of women killed by their partner, with 0.18 victims per 100,000 women, according to 2017 Eurostat figures. This is compared with a rate of 0.13 in Switzerland, 0.11 in Italy and 0.12 in Spain, but is less than in Germany (0.23).
French organizations have already called on the government to allocate about €1 billion for this issue. At the launch of the Grenelle domestic violence conference in Matignon, in the presence of more than a dozen ministers and about 80 guests, the head of government explained that €5 million additional would be made available to create 1,000 new places of accommodation and emergency housing starting 1 January 2020 for female victims of domestic violence.
He added that these places will be pided into 250 places "in emergency shelters, to ensure immediate security", and 750 places of "temporary housing".
Mr. Philippe also announced the generalization of the "possibility to complain to the hospital". Moreover, the government will also test the creating of emergency rooms within the courts "to process files within 15 days". The outcomes of this platform will be announced on November 25, in coinciding with the international day for the elimination of violence against women.
To raise awareness about this inhumane epidemic and to stop it, an emergency number (3919) was launched for victims of domestic violence, promoted by the French media.
Moreover, working groups have been organized to discuss three main topics: prevention, caring for victims, and punishing officials, which will result in hundreds of local meetings under the supervision of security governors.
The French government is racing against time to come up with strong declarations to put an end to men's violence against women that many European governments, including Spain, have succeeded in undermining it, according to Marilyn Chiapa, secretary of state for the equality of women and men.
By following up the public debate in the French media and community, we rarely listen to the real social causes behind this domestic violence; there are no sociological scientific studies that enable us to figure out the exact reasons behind the husband using of his physical strength to end the life of his partner, and why the marital relationship reaches such a degree of violence.
The pro-western civilization people in their scientific dialogues with others always praise and glorify the civilized level of the relationship between inpiduals within their community and especially between couples as well as family relations, yet the reality is horrific.
I wonder about the feasibility of these legal mechanisms. The well-known women's rights activist, MP Clementine Otan, mocks any reinforcement of the repressive arsenal, as Chiapa promised, stating that sufficient laws are already exist, but lacking activation, prevention, and the necessary funds.
From my point of view to eliminate this phenomenon, the sources of violence should be dried out through reviewing the system of values and education as well as confining patriarchal male superiority through investment in the educational aspect rather than in the legal one.
Contributed by: Nada Mustafa
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