The 101 feminicides registered since 1 January 2019 in France, the Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Marlene Schiappa, responds with the opening of a "Grenelle of domestic violence".
With this event, which begins on Tuesday, September 3 and will last three months, the government wants to act and to reduce the physical or sexual violence against some 220,000 women each year in a marital setting, according to official data.
"That's it, he killed me"
In 2018, the Ministry of the Interior has identified 121 feminicides, a murder every three days, according to the association "Femicide by companions or ex". In nine months, there are already 101 women who died under the blows of their spouse or former spouse in 2019. Women of all ages and all backgrounds, with or without children.
Among them, Julie Drouib. At 34, the young woman was the 30th victim of feminicide this year, shot dead on March 3rd by her ex-companion on Ile Rousse (Corsica). France 24 met her parents who agreed to testify.
Mother of two children aged 8 and 10, Julie Drouib was murdered at home after filing "six or seven complaints to the gendarmerie, for death threats and harassment" explains his father, Lucien.
On the day of her murder, after suffering several months of physical and psychological violence from her ex-partner, the young woman was shot, or even shot, when she had just opened the door of her apartment. , according to his mother, Violetta.
"The neighbor told me 'when she saw me, she looked up, she was able to move and said' this is it, he killed me '."
"He did not let her go"
Two years earlier, on September 24, 2017, Ghylaine, also 34 years old, succumbed to her injuries after being beaten and immolated by her ex-mate. This time, it's her big sisters, Sandrine and Nadège, as well as her mother, Josette, who agreed to give their testimony at the microphone of France 24.
"My sister and her mate had a fight, followed by very, very violent blows and then sir took gas, poured it on my sister and set fire to their little girl. years, "says Sandrine who collected the little Chloe, after the tragedy.
As in many cases, Ghylaine was killed when she announced to her companion her decision to break after ten years of systematic persecution. "She decided to leave on September 22," Sandrine explains, "and he did not let her go."
Sunday, a rally was held in Paris, place du Trocadero, to pay tribute to the hundred women murdered since the beginning of the year in France. "We need means [...] we want a billion, not a million", repeated the activists, asking the government to increase the budget allocated to the fight against domestic violence.