The ex-husband of a woman burned alive in 2021, near Bordeaux, was referred for murder. Mounir Boutaa, 44, a mason by profession with dual French-Algerian nationality, had just been released from prison after a conviction for domestic violence.
On May 4, 2021 in Mérignac, Chahinez Daoud, 31, mother of three children, was shot in the legs and then burned alive. On average over over recent years, a feminicide occurs every three days in France.