• Friday morning a woman was found fatally stabbed at her home in Bordeaux.

  • Her ex-spouse is suspected of the murder and was referred this Sunday "with a view to his indictment of the count of intentional homicide by spouse", explains the Prosecutor's Office of Bordeaux.

  • The separation and custody of their four-year-old daughter were sources of conflict between the two thirty-something.

The 36-year-old man suspected of having fatally stabbed at her home in Bordeaux, his ex-partner was referred this Sunday around 12 noon to the Bordeaux Public Prosecutor's Office "in view of his indictment of the count of intentional homicide by spouse", a indicated the prosecutor Frédérique Porterie. He is suspected of the murder, Friday shortly after 9 a.m., of his 31-year-old ex-partner, whom he was not allowed to see. The mother of their 4-year-old daughter had left him in early January, a separation that "he did not accept", according to the prosecutor.

The thirty-something, described as depressive and having alcohol “addiction” problems, was arrested shortly after by the Raid police while he was holed up in his apartment, 400 meters from the victim's home.

Sentenced six times (traffic offenses and narcotics between 2004 and 2009), the ex-spouse had never been for violence.

Many "malicious messages"

But since the beginning of the year, the victim said he had been harassed and had lodged a complaint twice with the police, in January, then in March to the prosecution to denounce the “obsessive” behavior of his ex-companion. Heard several times by investigators, the victim claimed that "he was prowling around her home" and sent her numerous messages by SMS or WhatsApp about their separation and the custody of their daughter, the prosecutor said.

A few days before the tragedy, Monday, he had already been placed in police custody as part of the complaint filed on March 30 by his ex-companion.

On Tuesday, the prosecution decided to send him back to court on November 16 to respond to "repeated sending of malicious messages (...) between January 3 and June 17" and had placed him under judicial supervision with "prohibition of to come into contact ”with her and“ obligation to take care of oneself ”.

A first investigation into a complaint of January 6 denouncing "psychological violence" had been the subject of an orientation towards an "alternative measure" to the prosecution on condition for him to follow care and to do an internship for "perpetrators of violence. conjugal ”, according to the prosecutor.

A rally in tribute to the young woman is scheduled this Sunday at 4 p.m. in front of her home.

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  • Aquitaine

  • Stab

  • Bordeaux

  • Murder

  • Feminicide