Femicide: in Meaux, a woman and her four children were killed in their home

And the 102nd feminicide of the year 2023 according to the Femicide Collective count by companions or exes. But it is also a quintuple murder that occurred in Meaux. This Monday, December 25th, a 35 year old mother and her four children: two daughters aged 10 and 7, two sons aged 4 and 9 months), were found murdered in their home.

The main suspect in this quintuple murder is the victim’s husband, father of the children. He was arrested in Sevran this Tuesday 26 December 2023. A judicial investigation will be opened for “intentional murder of minors under 15” and “intentional murder by a spouse”.

The mother and her two daughters were victims “very high number of stab wounds, the number of which is currently impossible to determine”. The bodies of the child and newborn had no visible injuries. The possibility of suffocation or drowning is currently favored.

According to the prosecutor he had already stabbed his partner in 2019 The world. They were then a couple for fourteen years and got married in October 2023. According to media reports the 1st, his partner had not filed a complaint and he had been declared irresponsible, due to mental deficiency. Since 2017, he has also been monitored for depressive and psychotic disorders and was hospitalized in psychiatry until January 2020, the prosecutor said.

For Dare Feminism “we are not going far enough, not fast enough”

For Violaine De Filippis-AbateDare Feminism activist, this family, like other women victims of femicide, could have been saved, she said franceinfo. “ What is in place is not enough. We’re not going far enough, not fast enough. Meanwhile, women and children continue to die. » He then takes the example of Spain, which has implemented « specialized courts for domestic violence “. Since then, the number of feminicides has decreased by 24%. “ This is a quarter of the lives saved », says the activist.

He then asks “ a real political and therefore budgetary will “. For her, the entire system of assistance to women victims of domestic violence needs to be reformed: “ Much more is needed. We need to train our police force much more. We need specialized courts for violence against women. I would even say that for investigations, the Prosecutor’s Office must be forced not to close the files without a minimum amount of investigative action. »

Because according to an official report from the General Inspectorate of Justice from 2019 that you cite during the interview, that year many victims had reported the violence to the police, but their complaints were dismissed without follow-up, “ mainly due to lack of investigationsremember. That is to say, we could have saved these women. »

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