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Féminicide de Mérignac: Chahinez Daoud's ex-husband confronted with his contradictions during a re-enactment

2023-05-24T18:30:36.321Z

Highlights: Two years ago, Chahinez Daoud was murdered and immolated alive. In the process of divorce with the one who was indicted for his murder three days after the facts, this mother of three children had been targeted by several bullets before being killed, by fire, at the end of her street. For 4 hours, in the presence of the prosecutor of the Republic of Bordeaux, lawyers of the parties, the witness of part of the facts and experts, the scenes of the crime were reconstituted.


For more than 4 hours, Wednesday, the ex-husband of Chahinez Daoud, indicted for his murder, attended the reconstruction of the facts that had taken place two years ago.


Le Figaro Bordeaux

The main suspect, Mounir Boutaa, arrived on the scene at 12:39 p.m., in a van marked "judicial police". In this suburban district of Mérignac, mothers ride their infants in strollers, teenagers ride bicycles alone and poppies bloom. It was also there, in a yellow house with white shutters overlooking a blade of garden, that the horror occurred. On May 4, 2021, Chahinez Daoud was murdered and immolated alive. In the process of divorce with the one who was indicted for his murder three days after the facts, this mother of three children had been targeted by several bullets before being killed, by fire, at the end of her street.

It was with this sequence that the reconstruction of the facts began at 13 p.m. under the direction of the investigating judge. For 4 hours, in the presence of the prosecutor of the Republic of Bordeaux, Frédérique Porterie, the lawyers of the parties, the witness of part of the facts and experts, the scenes of the crime were reconstituted, step by step. A stage of the judicial procedure carefully preserved from prying eyes in a street barricaded by the police.

Police cars placed across the street, blackboards and barnums: everything had been thought so that Mounir Boutaa could not be seen. He also walked, handcuffed, the 200 meters that separated him from the victim's house behind a van. There, a second sequence began. After the fact, the suspect had indeed retraced his steps, towards the home of his ex-companion to set it on fire. In the open garage and on its façade, traces of soot remain.

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The suspect faced with his contradictions

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There is no surprise in this case, it was mainly to go on points of detail and confront the points of divergence between the statements of the accused and the people who attended part of the facts, "said at the end of the reconstruction Julien Plouton, the lawyer of the parents of the victim. At his request, the latter were not present in order "not to be confronted with the accused for having taken the life of their daughter". Those who obtained custody of their grandchildren had nevertheless insisted on being "nearby" to pay tribute to him.

Presumed innocent until his trial, Mounir Boutaa, agreed "without particular difficulty" to lend himself to this reconstruction. The Bordeaux prosecutor's office, when asked, refused to comment, while the defense lawyers chose to reserve their comments to the court. A trial at the assizes where the photographs taken during this reconstruction will be presented to the jurors. Its date has not yet been set.

Meanwhile, Chahinez Daoud's parents have decided to sue the state for gross negligence because of the shortcomings of the judicial chain. The victim had indeed filed a complaint several times before the tragedy. A request for recognition of these wrongs amicably, coupled with a request for compensation of approximately one million euros, has been formulated and awaits a response.

Reconstitution of the femicide of Mérignac

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"I don't like to pass through this street"

Two years after the fact, the neighborhood still trembles evoking the noise and smell of crime. "I do not like to pass in this street, I think of it immediately," confides to the Figaro an octogenarian who lives in a parallel street. On the evening of Chahinez Daoud's murder, she was in her garden when screams reached her ears. "I didn't hear any gunshots. And it was so short, I didn't realize," she recalls, mortified by the "atrocity" that fell on "these poor kids". Her neighbor, too, is "upset" at the mention of the drama. "We didn't expect this in such a quiet neighborhood," she whispers as she returns to her garden with well-trimmed hedges.

Source: lefigaro

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