Gérald Darmanin requested an administrative investigation from the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN) after the murder this Friday March 3 in Gironde of a woman by her ex-spouse against whom she had filed two complaints, learned on Saturday the AFP to the Ministry of the Interior.
The victim, aged around 50, was killed at his home in Saint-Laurent-d'Arce by several stab wounds to the throat and stomach by his former companion, who was found hanged in the garage .
The man had already been convicted of an assassination attempt
The couple had been separated since "
mid-January
" and the woman "
had filed a complaint on February 5 and then February 23
" at the Saint-André-de-Cubzac gendarmerie for "
violence without incapacity
" and "
dissemination of images infringing on the intimacy of his private life
, ”said Libourne prosecutor Olivier Kern in a press release.
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The 62-year-old man was sentenced in 2006 by the Gironde Assize Court to twenty years' imprisonment for an attempted murder committed in 2003 on a former spouse, said the prosecutor.
He was the subject of "
a conditional reduction measure
" by the sentence enforcement judge and lived in the town of Montendre (Charente-Maritime), with a ban on entering into a relationship with this former companion, added the floor.
The number of murders of women increased by 20% in France in 2021 compared to the previous year, with 122 women killed by the blows of their spouse or ex-spouse, against 102 in 2020, according to figures from the Ministry of l 'Interior.