This Thursday, August 31, a woman was killed in the middle of the road in a small town in Savoy, La Croix-de-la-Rochette, near Chambéry. The victim, a 42-year-old police officer who was off duty at the time of the tragedy, was in charge of domestic violence cases at the Chambéry police station. The Parisian.
This femicide took place on Thursday morning, after accompanying one of her children to daycare. She was walking home with her other three-year-old son when she was killed. A man “inflicted more than a dozen violent blows with a weapon which, according to the investigations subsequently carried out on the spot by the coroner, could be a machete-type weapon ‘ the prosecutor said in a press release broadcast by BFM TV.
The main suspect already convicted
The prime suspect is the victim’s ex-partner. A 61 year old man Already known police services for acts of violence, but also condemned in 2020 for “failure to comply with a protection order issued in favor of the victim by the family court judge in the context of their separation”.
According to a source close to the investigation, the relationship between the victim and her ex-partner was like this “tumultuous”. Divorced since 2021, the victim had requested a transfer from Nice to Chambéry, revealed our colleagues at France Blue.
According to the indictment, this murder has probably it was done with premeditation. The suspect had left his home in Nice several days ago and was sleeping in his car, a few meters from the village where the crime was committed. To this day he is still on the run.
The femicide of this 42-year-old woman is the 90th femicide since the beginning of 2023.
If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence or just wants to find out more:
- 3919 and the government website let’s stop THE violence
- Our practical article My boyfriend hit me: how to react, what to do when you are a victim of violence in your relationship?
- The association All ahead and its help chat available at How do we love each other?
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Source: Madmoizelle
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