- The victim's sister is convinced that it is a feminicide by companion.
- According to investigators, the deceased was in "a pool of blood", half naked, her body had "many bruises".
She is convinced that it is a feminicide by companion. The sister of a woman who died in April 2017 in Oise has assigned the state to "gross negligence" after the destruction of seals while an investigation was still underway, AFP learned on Wednesday.
Sylvaine Belair requests 200,000 euros from the State "as damages to compensate for her loss", calling into question a double fault, according to her, the prosecutor of Senlis and the gendarmes of Pont-Sainte-Maxence. According to this summons revealed by RTL, she considers that the destruction of seals collected at the scene of the death of her sister Bénédicte "irreparably compromises the manifestation of the truth".
His companion already condemned for "violence" on his partner
On April 4, 2017, Bénédicte Belair was found dead at her home in Pont-Sainte-Maxence. According to the investigators, she was in "a pool of blood", half naked, her body presented "many bruises", with "a significant injury in the left eye".
"From the outset," reports the lawyer Me Olivier Morice, who drafted the summons, the family members of this woman "testify to the fact that she was the victim of violence committed by her spouse for several years", William M., with whom she was being separated. He had already been sentenced "criminally in 2012" for "violence" on his partner and had been the subject of subsequent alerts.
After several hearings and observations, the investigation was closed without action by the prosecution of Senlis in August 2017, finding, according to Me Olivier Morice, that Bénédicte Belair died alone and that at the supposed time of his death, his companion was at work.
Companion "never heard"
Contesting on this, Sylvaine Belair obtained the opening of a judicial investigation, soon joined by other members of the family. According to the text of the summons, "certain investigations, however most elementary, were not carried out" during this judicial information: William M., the companion, was "never heard".
At the beginning of 2020, the new counsel for Sylvaine Belair asked the investigating judge to carry out analyzes "on the biological samples taken on the scene of discovery of the body", which "had not previously been the subject of" no analysis ”.
They then discovered that almost all "the seals made up in this case had been destroyed" in October 2018 with the authorization of the Senlis prosecutor, even though judicial information had been opened since April. According to the summons, the Senlis prosecutor admitted in February that "it would undoubtedly have been more careful not to authorize such destruction".
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