TESTIMONY. In Vesoul, a violent ex-spouse tells of his care by Auviv, a specialized foster home

We’ll name him Marc, to guard his anonymity. Arrested in October 2019 by the gendarmes after a grievance from his ex-partner, this Haut-saônois was supplied a placement on the Auviv affiliation (Authors and victims of violence), a specialised middle with 10 locations, within the ready for his look earlier than the legal court docket.

That is the primary time that justice has finished me a fantastic service.
Marc, resident in Auviv.

For him, it’s an opportunity to have the ability to escape detention. "When you’re disadvantaged of your freedom, what do you’ve got left?" ", questions the person, who had beforehand been sentenced to a suspended sentence for home violence. "With my companion, on many events we tried to create a break", he regrets, thanking the justice system for having forbidden him to contact her. Lucid in regards to the causes for his placement in Auviv, he doesn’t disguise his intention to take the hand that’s prolonged to him and to evacuate his impulses. Having a room, which he fitted out together with his private results, he’s like the opposite residents constrained by hours of presence, made extra versatile in response to their skilled actions.

The eviction of the violent partner, offered for by regulation since 2004

In Vesoul, Auviv gives lodging and help for perpetrators and victims of home violence. Created in 2009, it is likely one of the first buildings to have acquired violent males in France. Till the regulation of Could 26, 2004, the sidelining of the authors of the matrimonial dwelling was not offered for by the legislation. A lady sufferer of home violence then had no selection however to proceed dwelling underneath the identical roof because the writer, or to go away. This authorized framework has since advanced significantly.

Enable girls and kids victims of violence to return to their houses, help them, whereas providing lodging and follow-up to the perpetrators: that is the precept of Auviv, one of many solely associations to supply this twin care in France. The Haut-Saônoise Affiliation for the Safeguarding of Kids to Adults (AHSSEA), the promoter of the undertaking, has thus broadened its system for combating home violence, which included a reception service for girls in problem ( SAFED).

2019, a yr of consciousness

It is a determine that we now have all heard lately. The variety of feminicides, whose macabre tally was extra publicized than in earlier years, returned to hang-out, every week, the victims and their households, because it was inevitably up to date. 149 girls died in 2019 from their partner or ex-spouse: that's 28 greater than in 2018.

Paradoxically, 2019 was a yr of consciousness. Quite a few actions have enamelled France, particularly final fall, through the Grenelle of home violence. On the finish of this nationwide motion plan, a number of measures have been introduced by the federal government for the safety of victims, the schooling of younger folks, but in addition the care of the perpetrators. Concerning this final element, few instruments at the moment exist. In any case, there are few alternate options to detention. The target is due to this fact to multiply facilities like Auviv.

Each day and particular person help for authors

With a psychologist and an educator specializing within the follow-up of the perpetrators, and a counselor in social and household economic system for the accompaniment of the victims, Auviv is conceived as a spot of reflection, with the intention to put together its reintegration and the return to the household dwelling, or closing separation. Outfitted with a kitchen, a rest room and an out of doors terrace, the discreet pavilion situated on the outskirts of Vesoul returns a soothing environment, conducive to introspection. Upon arrival, residents are first delivered to work on denial, with the intention to grow to be conscious of the violence they could have inflicted and the implications that they could have had on the victims.

We use actual phrases, on actual acts.
Yves Pelier, head of service and educator.

Particular person interviews are carried out with a psychologist to research the assaults, and dialogue teams are organized: "The collective permits a gaggle impact, to resist its difficulties", Particulars Bruno Marboutie. However every scenario is completely different, therefore particular person help, relying on the wants and method of the residents. "For some, it’s a chance to study to cook dinner, to fulfill dates", explains the educator, who supervises residents every day. This relative freedom implies an autonomy of the residents, who not like the prisoners are usually not fed and locked up.

At dwelling, they’re those who impose issues. Right here, we reverse the method.
Bruno Marboutie, referent educator of the authors.

At all times in contact with justice, the Auviv group ensures compliance with the foundations set by the choose: obligation of care with psychological help within the case of habit to alcohol or different medication, prohibition from seeing the sufferer or d 'method the household dwelling. Below judicial supervision, residents should be exemplary, "Any offense can finish the accompaniment", warns Yves Pelier, which, he notes, not often occurs. On the finish of the keep, which might final a number of months, a report is submitted to the judicial authority to report on the progress of the follow-up: “It permits for a extra academic sentence, tailored to the particular person's scenario. "

Auviv, a key hyperlink within the judicial arsenal

The affiliation works collectively with the Haute-Saône public prosecutor's workplace, the jail administration and the police and gendarmerie companies. As such, it’s an alternative choice to detention for convicted perpetrators of home violence who profit from a decreased sentence. "The vast majority of them settle for the gadget, they see the curiosity, remarks Bruno Marboutie, referent educator of the authors. Most acknowledge the gravity of the details. "

Once I bought out of the courthouse, I keep in mind a weeping man begging to assist him.
Bruno Marboutie, writer educator

Placement in Auviv will also be proposed by the sentencing choose within the case of a suspended jail sentence. Third risk, the construction is requested for so-called "pre-sentencing" placements, by resolution of a liberty and detention choose, with the intention to take away the partner from the house earlier than his judgment. That is exactly the case of the resident we met.

"This argument might have been averted"

A month and a half after arriving in Auviv, Marc is delighted with the work he has finished with the assorted stakeholders. "Life has given me every thing besides endurance. Properly, that is one thing that I’ve been capable of work with the shrink. He knew easy methods to discover the best phrases, to make me perceive it, as we speak I understood it and I exploit it. "

Conscious that lack of endurance doesn’t clarify every thing, Marc additionally partly justifies his act by the consumption of alcohol. A series response that he’s analyzing as we speak, prior to now few weeks: "The violence begins when speech not has room. While you see that it goes in all instructions, you must preserve a low profile. You could not provoke the particular person. " These statements that one would suppose got here out of a conjugal mediation, he has made his personal and prefers to consider them now.

Will he implement them after his sentence has been served? After a follow-up in the sort of specialised middle, the speed of authorized recidivism (conviction for a similar purpose, Editor's word) is round 20%, in opposition to 50% with out help, in response to the FNACAV (Nationwide Federation of Associations and Facilities for the Help of Authors of Home & Household Violence). In Auviv, this charge is 13%.

Auviv, a fragile laboratory

In 2018, the combat in opposition to violence in opposition to girls was declared a serious nationwide trigger by the federal government. On the native stage, the state companies needed to coordinate extra, which had the impact of creating Auviv identified in different areas. The small construction is seen as a mannequin of experimentation, in a division the place home violence is the topic of a control program, with the help of the general public prosecutor's workplace and the Vesoul tribunal de grande occasion – which turned the judicial tribunal on 1 January.

Nonetheless, this new viewers shouldn’t be sufficient to perpetuate a construction in everlasting seek for funding: "Everyone seems to be speaking about Auviv, however 4 or 5 years in the past it was not a precedence for folks," launches Yves Pelier. Every year, the system receives funding from the jail service for integration and probation, and from the departmental directorate for social cohesion and inhabitants safety. Inadequate to hold out the assorted enchancment tracks. Along with higher help for victims, the group hopes to arrange a reception system for in conditions of battle, making it doable to anticipate intra-family violence.

contacts

• Auviv, 19 rue Marcel Rozard, 70,000 Frotey Les Vesoul. Cellphone: 03 84 75 54 30
• SAFED, 100 Rue Baron Bouvier, 70,000 Vesoul. Cellphone: 03 84 76 00 10
• Nationwide emergency quantity: 3919