She did not know that her violent ex-boyfriend had come out of prison and was looking for her.
Bouchra, 44, died Friday, November 26 in Épinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis) under the stab wounds of Khalid, 51 years old.
A drama that has revived the debates on the judicial response to domestic violence.
Quickly, the Department of Justice announced a decree to inform victims of the release of their attacker, a measure considered before the tragedy of last week.
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This modification should in fact make it possible to validate an already existing circular.
“
I took an extremely clear circular on May 19.
I asked all the prosecutors that systematically the victims are notified of the release of their violent spouse.
As an extension of this circular, we will soon publish a decree to make this information compulsory,
”said Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, quoted by
Le Parisien
, during a hearing before the Delegation for Women's Rights of the 'National Assembly.
“
During this term of office, we did a lot of things, even if crime sometimes reminds us, unfortunately, that we perhaps did not do enough.
", He conceded, recalling in particular the installation of telephones"
serious danger
"(TGD), anti-reconciliation bracelets (BAR) and new accommodation places.
Currently, the code of criminal procedure provides for the information of victims for certain crimes and offenses, from which domestic violence remains excluded.
Some courts have nevertheless taken initiatives on the subject: the Montpellier judicial court has thus created a monitoring commission for perpetrators of domestic violence, which centralizes information on aggressors and targets profiles at risk of recidivism, recalls
Le Parisien.
.
The commission can provide victims with a “serious danger” telephone.
In the Épinay-sur-Seine affair, Bouchra was well equipped with this device, which has an emergency button alerting the police.
She thought she was safe until December 8
Khalid was imprisoned on June 7 and tried on July 29, sentenced to one year in prison, including six months with probation, and two years of compulsory care and the ban to approach his former partner.
A first conditional release was decided after four months of detention in early October.
In the following days, the man had returned near the home of Bouchra, who had activated the alert button on his phone.
He then turned back, but the police arrested him again before returning him to detention on October 8.
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Convinced that her former violent spouse would serve the end of her sentence, Bouchra felt safe until December 8, when she had planned to go to Morocco with her two daughters to protect herself, testifies her brother in
Le Parisien
. A further reduction of the sentence was however decided in November, Khalid having proposed a new domicile in another department. Free, he bought a knife and went once again to Bouchra's home before brutally assaulting her, leaving her dying before taking himself prisoner at the nearest police station. The victim did not have her emergency phone with her, confirming that she was unaware that Khalid had been released from prison. "
There is nothing to confirm that the victim was notified of the release of his ex-spouse from the Fleury-Mérogis (Essonne) remand center
, ”acknowledged the Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) prosecutor's office.
A failure which placed Justice under criticism. "
I hear: We do nothing, we do nothing every time there is a misfortune and a drama, we do not even wait for the time of compassion ... The nihilist criticism is absolutely unbearable,
" replied the Keeper of the Seals by evoking in particular the need to set up accommodation for the perpetrators of violence, as well as their victims. "
We obviously have to accommodate the victims but we must also ensure that the perpetrators are accommodated because otherwise they have only one desire: either to cross the geographical perimeter of the BAR, or to make fun of the serious telephone pollock. danger and go and reinvest a home that they believe is theirs. I do not understand that we do not understand that
",he wondered. "
What do we do with these guys?
Are they fired from their homes on the grounds that they are perpetrators and left in the street?
He asked himself.
"
So you are sure that we will quadruple the number of misfortunes,
" he added.
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The Minister also welcomed the device which allows a woman in an irregular situation and victim of domestic violence to be taken care of and regularized.
"
We have done a lot of things and we are going to do a lot more
," he promised.
According to a recent report from the Ministry of the Interior, 146 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse in 2019, and 102 in 2020.