The Minister of Equality between Women and Men and the Fight against Discrimination Aurore Bergé invited to France Inter on Friday January 3.
POLICY – ” Already one too many “. While France experienced its first feminicide of the year in Hautmont in the North during New Year's Eve, the new Minister responsible for Equality between Women and Men Aurore Bergé made an update. “I was surprised to see that in an official press release, the supposed life of the victim is mentioned, and I find that this happens too often,” regretted the minister this Friday, January 3, at the microphone of France Inter.
Isabelle Mortaigne, 51, was found dead in Hautmont in the North, her body covered in bruises. Her partner who called for help during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, explaining “having done something stupid”was taken into police custody, according to AFP. In the details given in the press release mentioned by Aurore Bergé, the Valenciennes public prosecutor's office also indicates that the alleged culprit “suspected his wife of adultery”.
“What matters is the author”
According to the minister, such information has no place there: “ We never question the victim's past. It doesn't matter what her past is, what she did or didn't do, what matters is that she was murdered, what matters is understanding how it was made possible in our company,” she denounces.
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A method that she says she finds too often in cases of sexual violence in particular: “ A woman who is a victim of sexual violence, the question is not how many partners she has had, the question is whether she was the victim of sexual assault or rape. So, no matter his past, no matter his present, what matters is the author. »
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The mayor of Hautmont, for his part, deplored in a message on Facebook a tragedy which “reminds us of the urgency of fighting all forms of violence, particularly domestic and domestic violence”. “Our territory is unfortunately experiencing an increase in this violence”writes the elected official. Aurore Bergé indicated that she would go there next week, at the request of the mayor of the Northern commune.
In 2023, 96 women were victims of marital femicide in France, a figure down 19% compared to 2022, according to the latest report from the Ministry of the Interior published at the end of November.
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