“No professional misconduct”.
This is the conclusion drawn by the inspection mission carried out after the feminicide in Hayange in Moselle.
The latter, however, underlines the "absolute need" for better coordination in the treatment of domestic violence, in its report unveiled Friday.
"The mission considers that no professional misconduct can be noted in the decisions taken before the murder, all the stakeholders having mobilized normally in the fields of their competence", write the authors of the "final" report commissioned by the government.
This is the second report on a feminicide in the space of a month, after the one on the tragedy that occurred in early May in Mérignac (Gironde), where a woman had been burned alive by her husband.
A long series of failures of the actors in this file had been pointed out.
The Hayange drama occurred on the night of May 23-24.
The victim, a 22-year-old young woman, was stabbed to death by her companion in the middle of the street, a stone's throw from the then closed police station.
This murder, which occurred "in a difficult family and social context", "ends a relationship punctuated by incidents", notes the document drafted by the General Inspectorate of Justice and the General Inspectorate of Administration.
Departments called upon to invest in the face of violence
"The seriousness of the facts, however, underlines the absolute necessity to coordinate the action of local actors at each stage of the treatment of domestic violence", insist the authors.
"Beyond (the) essential improvements, the mission considers that the multiplication of directives from the Ministries of the Interior and of Justice risks complicating the action of local services by leaving an ambiguity in the behavior to be adopted", believe they still.
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Among the six recommendations it formulates, the mission considers "necessary, as it is a matter of a priority public policy, that a circular be co-signed by the two ministers" in order to present "a common definition of domestic violence, a unification of danger assessment grids ”.
"This text would allow better information sharing, greater readability for local actors and more efficiency of services", further estimate the mission.
This proposes to reflect on "greater involvement" of the departments "in the identification of domestic violence", in particular in connection with the mayors and associations.
An electronic bracelet torn off on the evening of the tragedy
Arrested the day after the crime, the murderer, a 23-year-old Serb, a political refugee, had been indicted for murder of a spouse and imprisoned. Already sentenced to one year in prison for traffic offenses, he had benefited from a modification of the sentence and had been placed on May 13 in house arrest under surveillance, with an electronic bracelet.
But the device has known "an unexplained malfunction to date" since it was torn off the evening of the tragedy without triggering "any alarm at the monitoring center", points out the report. The public prosecutor of Metz, Christian Mercuri, had refuted any “dysfunction of the judicial services” the day after the feminicide. The magistrate had, however, recognized that, "in an ideal world", the complaints lodged by the victim against her violent spouse should have been reported to the prosecution.