Céline Géraud 8:19 a.m., June 12, 2022, modified at 8:22 a.m., June 12, 2022
After the murder of a 14-year-old girl in Saône-et-Loire, the whole city is in shock.
Residents came to lay flowers in memory of Emma, who was stabbed to death by her boyfriend.
The latter confessed to the facts and was imprisoned in an establishment with a section for minors.
Will he be tried for feminicide, despite the young age of his victim and his own?
In Clessé, in Saône-et-Loire, throughout the day on Friday June 10, residents came to lay flowers in memory of Emma, 14 years old.
It was behind the village school that the lifeless body of the teenager was discovered, stabbed multiple times.
Her boyfriend, a 14-year-old teenager, confessed to killing the girl.
The young boy was imprisoned in an establishment with a section for minors and a psychiatric health unit, according to magistrate Patrick Guigon.
Will he be tried for feminicide, despite the young age of his victim and his own?
"It could be a feminicide because there was a love bond"
"We can find a rather precise definition of feminicide", explains forensic pathologist Jean-Marc Ben Kemoun at the microphone of Europe 1. "A feminicide is the murder of a woman or a girl because of her sex. It There is no defined age in the definition.In theory, the aggressor must have a relationship with the young woman, whether the latter is in a state of dependence or influence, including threats, etc. .", he continues.
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"There must be a pathological link between the two. This link is found in the context of a sentimental relationship. The type of acts also comes into play in the definition. These are acts of great violence, centered above all on control. So, if what the public prosecutor describes takes in absolute terms the act as it is described, I think that then indeed, it could be a question of a feminicide " .
The 14-year-old boy stabbed his girlfriend to death.