The public prosecutor Philippe Astruc here during a press conference on the murder of Magali Blandin near Rennes.
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Killed by her husband with a baseball bat, Magali Blandin had filed a complaint for domestic violence.
The complaint was dismissed, which aroused the indignation of many politicians after the tragedy.
The Rennes public prosecutor explains on Tuesday why the complaint was closed.
The emotion gave way to anger after the murder of Magali Blandin, killed by her husband who "did not support her leaving him".
Since the discovery of the mother's body on the night of Friday to Saturday in Boisgervilly (Ille-et-Vilaine), many political leaders have criticized the justice system which had dismissed a complaint for domestic violence filed in September by the victim .
“She was killed with a baseball bat.
Baseball bat.
She had filed a complaint for violence.
The complaint was dismissed.
In fact, nothing changes.
It is despairing and revolting ”, wrote on Twitter Laurence Rossignol, socialist senator and former minister.
Not wanting to "argue with anyone", the Rennes public prosecutor wanted to explain on Tuesday why the complaint had been closed.
“To say that justice is not doing its job and that nothing is changing is very unfair,” he told AFP.
In the summer of 2020, Magali Blandin, a specialist educator, announces to her husband that she is going to take a personal bank account, a decision that tends to strain relations in this couple who has four children.
On the evening of September 2, during a heated discussion, "she says he lifts the bench and that she falls on her buttocks back".
The next day, she files a complaint with the Montauban-de-Bretagne brigade and the husband is taken into custody, while the four parents of the couple will be heard.
Social support set up after the complaint
Magali Blandin “passes the protocol, goes to the forensic institute.
A medical certificate does not note any physical injuries, ”explains Philippe Astruc.
"She also evokes the facts in 2005 2013, 2019, 2020 and the authoritarian character of her husband, and says" generally, the violence is more pushes, insults of all kinds, denigration ".
The husband, who acknowledges having lifted the bench, "says he is the victim of physical violence from his wife, which Ms. Blandin recognizes and what in civil proceedings, the children will confirm."
Also, the magistrate, who decides on the classification, considers that "the intensity of this fact does not justify a referral to the criminal court".
"Given an egalitarian approach to the law (...), it would naturally have been necessary to prosecute Ms. Blandin for the violence, recognized, that she may have exerted on her husband", underlines Philippe Astruc.
“The choice that was made was rather to set up social support,” adds Philippe Astruc, with an interview with a psychologist, contact with two victim support associations and support for the social worker in the gendarmerie.
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