A
"vile crime"
,
"barbarism"
and a great feeling of injustice.
The death of Chahinez, a 31-year-old woman, mother of three, burned alive in the middle of the street by a violent recidivist husband, revives the debate on the fight against the scourge of domestic homicides and violence against women.
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How could this tragedy have occurred when Chahinez's husband, Mounir B, a 44-year-old Franco-Algerian, had already been convicted less than a year ago for domestic violence?
In June 2020, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, including nine months suspended, for domestic violence.
At the beginning of October, he had obtained a modified sentence, a specific external placement measure for perpetrators of domestic violence.
Released on December 9,
"he was since followed by the penitentiary service of integration and probation of the Gironde"
, specified Thursday the public prosecutor of Bordeaux.
Many flaws
This repeat offender - already convicted seven times since 2004 for drunk driving, theft or even violence with the use or threat of a weapon - did not respect his ban on coming into contact with his wife. On March 15, Chahinez lodged a complaint with the Mérignac police station for an assault. A flagrant investigation had been opened and Mounir B. had since been wanted by the police. Without success. The young woman did not have a serious danger telephone (TGD) and her violent husband, from whom she was separated, had not been assigned an anti-reconciliation bracelet, the device having been launched after her judgment.
Faced with these many flaws, the General Inspectorate of Administration and the General Inspectorate of Justice were seized on Thursday by the Ministries of Justice and the Interior.
An inspection mission - the conclusions of which are expected on May 11 - will shed light on
"the modalities of implementation of the probationary suspension measure"
of Mounir B.,
"to examine whether this support was correctly carried out and followed ”
.
It will have to analyze the follow-up given to the complaint of the victim, who knew he was in danger.
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Thursday, the prosecutor of Bordeaux, Frédérique Porterie, also detailed the freezing course of the murder of Chahinez. Her husband, in possession of a 12-gauge rifle, gas pistol and cartridge belt, shot her twice in the thighs, then sprayed her with a canister while she was on the ground, before setting fire to his body with a lighter. The autopsy established that the victim was
"still alive when he sacrificed it"
, and that she died as a result of
"acute respiratory distress"
.
Arrested by the BAC, Mounir B. said, during his police custody, that he was convinced that his wife had a lover and was manipulating him.
He told investigators that he wanted
"to punish her for the suffering she endured"
,
"to burn his wife a little to leave marks on her,"
the prosecutor reported.
In the evening, he was to be referred for the opening of a judicial investigation for
"intentional homicide by spouse"
.
Domestic violence
Feminist associations are calling for
"urgent measures"
while there have been
"39 feminicides"
since the start of the year. Official sources count for their part about thirty. “
This is a figure that is on the rise again. The number of women killed is increasing compared to last year at the same time, ”
points out the Women's Foundation.
“In 13 of these 39 femicides, the victims were killed by firearms. And in a third of the cases, these women had lodged a complaint "
, warns its president, Anne-Cécile Mailfert, who calls for the
" immediate confiscation "
of the weapons of the men targeted by a complaint for domestic violence, a measure adopted within the framework of the Grenelle against domestic violence. The momentum of this mobilization
"has faded"
, she continues, and the fight against domestic violence
"is unfortunately no longer considered a political priority".
