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The judicial authority must systematically notify the victim of the release of his attacker from detention, whether he is awaiting trial or already sentenced, according to a new decree which comes into force on Tuesday. Judicial authorities will have to systematically notify victims of domestic violence of the release of their attacker from prison, according to a new government decree which comes into force on Tuesday.  Another novelty, justice must "explicitly provide" to "question the need" for surveillance measures for the ex-spouse and protection for the victim.   

Road traffic is the main source of ultrafine particle (UFP) pollution in Ile-de-France, according to the results of a first survey by the Airparif association, published on Tuesday.  Airparif, the air quality observatory in Ile-de-France, has launched a program to measure ultrafine particles, smaller than 100 nanometers, less than the size of a virus. The study focuses on four urban or peri-urban areas: the Parisian district of Les Halles, Gennevilliers, in Hauts-de-Seine, Tremblay-en-France in Seine-Saint-Denis and in rural areas, in Bois- Herpin, in Essonne. The first series of surveys was carried out in a winter “background” situation from December 2020 to February 2021.   

Five years after the start of #MeToo, the association Mémoire Traumatique et Victimologie published on Tuesday the results of its latest survey “The French e s and representations on rape”.  Despite improvements, some figures remain worrying.   Pornography, rape culture, sexist stereotypes... For the third time since 2016, the association Mémoire Traumatique et Victimologie has made an inventory of the representations of the French. While a number of behaviors are increasingly considered rape, one in five French people still consider that forcing their spouse to have sex is not rape.   It is young people aged 18 to 24 who qualify certain situations the least as rape: they are 52% to consider that it is common for people who accuse of rape to lie out of romantic disappointment or revenge (compared to 37% for the rest of population). Similarly, 18-24 are 36% to think that a woman can take pleasure in being humiliated or insulted (against 12% among the rest of the ...