Femicide in Gironde: the victim had filed a complaint twice

Another feminicide that could have been avoided. Catherine, in her fifties, had filed a complaint twice, to no avail. In Saint-Laurent-d’Arce (Gironde), on Friday 3 March, her ex-partner broke into her house and killed her with several stab wounds. Then he hanged himself.

The man had already been convicted of attempted murder of his former girlfriend

The man had already been sentenced to twenty years in prison in 2006 for the attempted murder of his previous partner. He received a conditional reduced sentence. According to Libourne solicitor Olivier Kern, Catherine had been separated from him for “Mid January ” AND “he filed a complaint on February 5 and then on February 23 » to the gendarmerie of Saint-André-de-Cubzac for “violence without incapacity ” AND “diffusion of images that violate the intimacy of his private life “he said in a press release.

Any complaints of domestic violence must be immediately forwarded to the prosecutor. Thus, the accused spouse is immediately placed in custody, is the protocol. But a month has passed since the victim’s first report, because the prosecutor’s office was not informed by the gendarmes who received the report, as revealed by TF1.

The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, has asked for the opening of an administrative investigation by the Inspectorate General of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN) to understand why they have not complied with this procedure. Catherine’s murder is the 23rd femicide of the year.