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“She wanted to live like a Frenchwoman”: Chahinez B., mother of a family burned alive by her husband

2021-05-07T15:47:15.578Z


PORTRAIT - Set on fire by her husband in Mérignac, near Bordeaux, the young woman from Algeria, aged 31, was the mother of 3 children. She is the 39th victim of a marital murder in France in 2021.


"

For a little Mother who yearned to live in peace, who loved her children deeply, who organized birthdays for them with multicolored balloons and the joyful laughter of children in the garden

";

touched by the horror of the murder on Tuesday May 4 of a mother in Mérignac, in Gironde, neighbors and friends came to drop messages in front of the house of Chahinez B., 39th victim of a conjugal murder in France in 2021. Burned alive by her husband whom she had met in Algeria, Chahinez B. arrived in France five years ago, in the hope of a better life.

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"His life was punctuated by the education of his children"

Originally from a small village in Algeria, Chahinez B. had met Mounir B. through his sister-in-law.

The latter had presented Chahinez to her attacker when the latter had come to spend a holiday in Algeria,

a police source

told

Le Figaro

.

Mother of two children aged 12 and 7 today and from a first marriage, Chahinez then dreams of moving to France with Mounir, "

of French nationality,

" said the same source.

Arrived in France in 2016, Chahinez B. obtained French nationality after his marriage to Mounir B., also divorced.

From their union was born, in 2016, a little boy.

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The family moved to a quiet residential area, avenue Carnot, in Mérignac.

A town hall worker in school catering at the Burck school, where her daughter and one of her sons go, Chahinez is known to be a discreet woman, entirely devoted to her children.

It was not a family particularly known by the town hall, but it was not an isolated woman.

Two of her children attended the local school and her husband was known for his background,

Mérignac town hall

told

Le Figaro

.

Arrived in France in 2016, Chahinez B. obtains French nationality after his marriage to Mounir B. AFP

But the couple are quickly losing ground. In 2020, Chahinez files a first complaint against her husband for violence. “

She wanted to live in France like a Frenchwoman, but her husband did not agree. He wanted an Algerian as in Algeria,

”explains a source familiar with the matter. "

She was not very free, she wanted to go out in cafes and put on jeans, but he did not want

", continues the same source, "

Her husband is someone quite authoritarian, who clearly showed that he was not afraid of the police and the justice system

”.

After the filing of this complaint, the mother of the family is then followed by the Prado association, a victim support service.

She also goes regularly to the local social and cultural center of Burck "Association Tournesol", where she takes her children to participate in extracurricular and educational activities.

“He

was a very loved one in the neighborhood and his children were very integrated.

She was discreet, but sometimes the neighbors saw her, with signs of blows on the face

”, reports

Le Figaro

the mayor of Mérignac Alain Anziani.

"

Her life was punctuated by the education of her children and her visits to the social center, where she was accompanied

", continues the elected official.

A week before the tragedy, the mother of the family is arrested by Mounir B., released from prison in December 2020 after being imprisoned in June 2020 for "willful violence by spouse" in recidivism. Mounir finds Chahinez in front of the neighborhood supermarket and brutally apostrophes him. “

He grabbed her by the collar and squeezed her neck tightly. He could have strangled him if no one had intervened,

”reports the mayor of Mérignac. Mounir B. then evaporated into nature, until Tuesday, May 4 when, "

with a desire for barbaric cruelty

", he murdered the mother of his child.

Source: lefigaro

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