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After the gruesome death of a woman in France, the police and judiciary have come under fire.
This femicide shows the problems in monitoring and prosecuting convicted criminals, said Anne-Cécile Mailfert, president of the women's rights organization Fondation des femmes, on Thursday the channel France Info.
In any case, one must ask oneself how it could be that the suspect, given his background, could have a firearm.
The alliance "Nous Toutes" (we all) criticized that the act could have been prevented.
“This feminicide, the 39th, could have been prevented.
In many cases the murdered women had sounded the alarm.
They were ignored by law enforcement or the judiciary, ”the organization wrote on Twitter.
According to the investigators, a 44-year-old first shot his partner in a middle-class residential area of Mérignac west of Bordeaux on Tuesday evening.
According to the police, he initially chased the 31-year-old on the street and shot her legs with a rifle, whereupon she fell.
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When the woman fell to the ground, the man with Algerian and French citizenship set fire to his victim in the street.
It can be assumed that the woman was still alive when she was set on fire, said the prosecutor in charge, Frédérique Porterie, in a press conference.
According to the prosecutor, the mother of three children died of shortness of breath and burns.
The alleged perpetrator has a multiple criminal record
The man was arrested by police shortly after the crime.
The Bordeaux prosecutor said he had a rifle, a gas pistol and an ammunition belt with him.
The judiciary is investigating him for deliberate homicide.
According to the investigators, the man gave the motive for the fatal act that he wanted to punish the woman, but not kill, because she had a lover.
He has multiple criminal records and was imprisoned for domestic violence as early as 2020.
The victim only reported the man again in March.
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The government has now announced an investigation to check whether the measures taken against the suspect were previously sufficient.
Mailfert from Fondation des femmes complained that the man could have worn an electronic bracelet.
This is allowed in France, but is rarely used.
The fight against domestic violence is no longer high on the political agenda. "We really have to use all the instruments we fought for, put resources on the table and make this a political priority," demanded Mailfert.