In the event of serious danger threatening a person who has been the victim of violence at the hands of his or her spouse, cohabitee or partner in a civil solidarity pact, the public prosecutor may allocate to the victim, for a renewable period of six months and if he or she expressly consents, a remote protection device enabling him or her to alert the public authorities. The allocation may be requested by any means. With the victim’s agreement, this device may, where appropriate, enable her to be geolocated at the time she triggers the alert.
The remote protection device may only be allocated if the victim and the perpetrator of the violence are not living together and:
Either when the perpetrator of the violence has committed a serious offence, or when the victim has committed a serious offence.
1° Or where the perpetrator has been judicially prohibited from coming into contact with the victim as part of a protection order, alternative prosecution, penal composition, judicial supervision, electronically monitored house arrest, conviction, sentence adjustment or security measure;
or
2° Or in the event of proven and imminent danger, where the perpetrator of the violence is on the run or has not yet been apprehended or where a court order prohibiting contact with the victim in one of the contexts provided for in 1° has not yet been issued.
This article also applies when the violence has been committed by a former spouse or cohabitee of the victim, or by a person who was linked to the victim by a civil solidarity pact, as well as in cases of serious danger threatening a person who has been raped.