After a femicide in Gironde on Friday, Gérald Darmanin intervenes. The Minister of the Interior has requested an administrative investigation by the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN). The woman, killed by her ex-husband, had already filed two complaints against him.
The victim, aged in his fifties, was killed at his home in Saint-Laurent-d'Arce with several stab wounds to the throat and stomach by his former companion, who was found hanged in the garage.
The couple had been separated since "mid-January" and the woman "had filed a complaint on February 5 and February 23" to the gendarmerie of Saint-André-de-Cubzac for "violence without disability" and "dissemination of images infringing the intimacy of her private life," said Libourne prosecutor Olivier Kern in a statement.
The perpetrator already heavily sentenced for domestic violence
The man, aged 62, had been sentenced in 2006 by the Assize Court of Gironde to twenty years in prison 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 judge of the execution of sentences and resided in the commune of Montendre (Charente-Maritime), with prohibition to enter into contact with this former companion, added the prosecutor.
The number of femicides increased by 20% in France in 2021 compared to the previous year, with 122 women killed by their spouse or ex-spouse, compared to 102 in 2020, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior.
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