Le centre de psycho-traumatisme de Bordeaux travaille sur un “protocole féminicide” pour les enfants
The regional center for psycho-trauma (CRP) at the Charles-Perrens hospital center in Bordeaux was created at the start of 2020. That is to say a little over a year before the Mérignac feminicide, and the death of Chahinez Daoud in full street on May 4, 2021. Three young children thus found themselves without a mother overnight, and with a father in prison. A drama that “turned” Chantal Bergey, coordinator of this regional center for psycho-trauma. This is what she named this Wednesday, January 26 to Adrien Taquet, Secretary of State for Children and Families, passing through Bordeaux to visit this CRP which was created with the plan to combat violence against childrentwo years ago.
“All stages of protection have been taken into account”explains Adrien Taquet. “First the collection of the child’s speech, which is a decisive moment. We have developed the creation of 100 pediatric units for children in danger, where children are interviewed in a secure department and in a special room, questioned by trained police officers. The interview is also checked in, “so that the children do not have to repeat and therefore relive the facts seven or eight times. This acts as proof”the explained Secretary of State. “We must activate all the levers: the training of professionals such as teachers or magistrates, but also the identification of this violence during medical visits.” At the regional psycho-trauma center in Bordeaux, more than 1,000 professionals have already been trained last year.
Decompartmentalize services
In this center where 33 minors were taken in since last summer, the medical team intends to work, in the coming weeks, on a new protocol specialized in care for the children of victims of feminicide. “Things have to be organized when the drama happens, everyone knows what to do”, explains Chantal Bergey. This type of protocol is already experienced in Seine-Saint-Denis and Lyon. “It includes, for example, immediate shelter in a pediatric ward with child psychiatrists, but also volunteers trained to play the role of “aunties” and reassure children during a social investigation.
A protocol that also facilitates dialogue between the prosecution, the departmental council and health professionals, all involved in the care of children during a feminicide. “There should be no more ambiguity and no more questions. We just need to talk to each other more”, says Chantal Bergey, who is part of the working group set up by Adrien Taquet to establish this protocol. The first meetings were to be held at the end of February.