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L'Olympique de Marseille announced on Sunday that it is hosting a group of women in the football club's training centre. The temporary housing has been allocated for victims of domestic violence amid a sharp rise in reported abuse during confinement across France, RFI reports.

The 18 women, some of them with their children, are staying in the rooms usually reserved for the young players of the club's training wing, according to France Televisions.

Since the lockdown measures put in place on 17 March to curb the spread of coronavirus, L'Olympique de Marseille (OM) has not been operating its facilities and no matches have been played.

It offered to make the 46 rooms of the training centre's accomodation wing available to the community during the coronavirus crisis as of 4 April.

In a joint statement, the police and the football club said the accomodation, adhering to confinement specifications, was set up in less than a week.