Three days after the violent assassination of Stéphanie Di Vincenzo by her companion in Hayange (Moselle), the relatives of the 22-year-old young woman describe an ordinary and joyful woman, who devoted herself fully to her three-year-old daughter.
But above all, they are overcome by a double feeling of sadness and anger.
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Sadness first. That of having lost a daughter, a granddaughter, a friend. Described as a young woman
"who loved to go out and have fun like all girls of her age"
by her grandmother at
Le Figaro,
Stéphanie was also the mother of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl, Mia. A role that she seemed to take particularly to heart as suggested by several of her relatives.
“She was (Editor's note: his daughter) really his everything. She almost lived that for her she said yes to everything. It was her joie de vivre, ”
an acquaintance of the missing young woman
told
Lorraine Actu
. And her grandmother added that Stéphanie was "
a nice mother who took good care of her daughter
".Asked by
Lorraine Actu
, a friend of hers, remembers a woman who “
had a lot of energy.
A stay-at-home mother, she was a good living
”.
"She was on her own, she had to take care of her daughter and no one was there to save her, no one did anything!"
Tears are followed by anger.
For many, the young mother could have been saved.
“Stéphanie had been getting beaten up for a while.
All the neighbors knew it, ”
the same friend told the news site.
Without directly suspecting the violence that the young woman could suffer, her family was also aware of the dangerousness of the man with whom she shared her life.
“In the family we did not agree with this relationship.
We all knew that this guy was a bad and very dangerous person, ”
says Stéphanie's grandmother, who hadn't seen her granddaughter for some time because of this disagreement.
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The police had also been warned, as the
mayor RN of Hayange, Fabien Engelmann,
told
Lorraine Actu
.
“
The couple was known to the neighborhood who had already called the national police for nightly noise, arguments,
” he explained.
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Stéphanie herself had filed a handrail in January 2020 then a complaint on November 3 of the same year against her spouse for
"verbal violence and death threats",
as clarified Tuesday Christian Mercuri, public prosecutor de Metz during a press conference. But after this complaint,
"the victim did not wish to go further in the process,"
said the magistrate. A statement that revolts the grandmother of the young woman. “
She was on her own, she had to take care of her daughter and no one was there to save her, no one did anything!
», She protests. "
To say that several people witnessed the murder and that instead of coming to his aid,some preferred to film the scene ”
, she still laments.
A rally in tribute to Stéphanie, organized at the call of the mayor RN of Hayange Fabien Engelmann, is to take place this Wednesday at the end of the afternoon in front of the town hall of Hayange (Moselle).
Her grandmother should speak out.
"We will do what is necessary to ensure that justice is done to him,"
she said.
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On Wednesday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin also announced the establishment of an operational inspection mission in order to shed
light on “the terrible feminicide of Hayange”
last weekend. An announcement that came a few hours after the LR president of the Grand Est region, Jean Rottner, called for "
an administrative investigation into this crime
".
