This Friday, Mounir Boutaa, the violent and repeat offender husband accused of having set his wife on fire Tuesday in Mérignac was indicted for voluntary homicide on a spouse and placed in pre-trial detention, announced the Bordeaux prosecutor's office.
He was indicted for "counts of intentional homicide by spouse, willful destruction by fire, willful violence without ITT with a legally recidivated weapon", a final point linked to the fact that he threatened a neighbor who was trying to rescue to the victim.
The 44-year-old man pursued his wife Chahinez, a mother of three, whom he had been watching since the morning.
He shot her several times in the legs, then sprayed her with a flammable liquid while she was still alive and set her on fire.
The suspect then set fire to the home of the 31-year-old victim.
An orderly inspection mission
The Ministries of Justice and the Interior have launched an inspection mission which will notably study the conditions of release and the follow-up of the man who was serving a suspended prison sentence.
Mounir Boutaa, with dual Franco-Algerian nationality, was sentenced on June 25, 2020 in Bordeaux to 18 months in prison, nine of which were suspended for “willful violence by a spouse” in recidivism, on his wife.
In mid-March, Chahinez had filed a complaint against her husband for a new assault.
But the man, wanted by the police, had remained "nowhere to be found".
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