Sunday night, in Oberhoffen-sur-Moder, in the Lower Rhine, a 40-year-old woman was killed by her husband, 58 years old. According to the victim's daughter, who delivered poignant testimony at the microphone of Europe 1, some warning signals were ignored by the authorities.
Were the gendarmes too slow to intervene? This is what the entourage of the victim who is shocked by a response time of "almost 30 minutes" thinks. For its part, the gendarmerie evokes 20 minutes between the call of the companion of the girl of the victim, and their arrival on the spot. "Not exceptional for an intervention of night", commented the forces of the order. Especially since, according to the authorities, it is a "dispute" that is then mentioned, and therefore not an imminent danger.
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But it is the context of the drama that raises questions. As Stella, the daughter of the victim, said, her mother had placed several handrails, and even a complaint for "violence and death threat". The spouse was even summoned for a hearing to be held next month for "threats of damage". The gendarmes knew the situation, as did the family, the friends, and even the neighbors.
The man has been indicted for spousal murder and placed in pre-trial detention, the Strasbourg public prosecutor said in a statement. Strasbourg prosecutor Yolande Renzi said earlier that she had called for an indictment of the "murder leader".
"Two or three days before, the gendarmes had already intervened, she did not want to file a complaint and said not to feel insecure.We can not force the victims to leave their homes," said the gendarmerie. In 2018, 121 women were killed in domestic violence, according to the official count of the Ministry of the Interior. This number is already 131 for the current year.