The violent and repeat offender husband accused of having set his wife on fire Tuesday in Mérignac was indicted for intentional homicide on a spouse and placed in pre-trial detention, the Bordeaux prosecutor's office announced to AFP on Friday.
Mounir B. was indicted for "
counts of intentional homicide by spouse, willful destruction by fire, willful violence without ITT with a weapon in legal recidivism
", a last point linked to the fact that he threatened a neighbor who was trying to rescue the victim, the same source said.
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The 44-year-old man, already imprisoned for domestic violence in 2020, sued his wife, Chahinez mother of three children, whom he had been watching since the morning.
He shot her several times in the legs, then sprayed her with a flammable liquid while she was still alive and set her on fire.
The suspect then set fire to the home of the victim, 31, a mother of three.
The Ministries of Justice and the Interior have launched an inspection mission which will notably study the conditions of release and the follow-up of the man who was serving a suspended prison sentence.
Mounir B., with dual Franco-Algerian nationality, was sentenced on June 25, 2020 in Bordeaux to 18 months in prison, nine of which were suspended for “
willful violence by a spouse
” in recidivism, on his wife.
In mid-March, Chahinez lodged a complaint with the Mérignac police station against her spouse for a new assault.
But the man, wanted by the police, had remained "
nowhere to be found
".