At the foot of the building where Bouchra lived, at 1 allée Carpeaux in Epinay-sur-Seine, Abdelkhalek Bouali, observes the crowd gradually forming. It was also there that her sister, Bouchra, was killed by her former companion on November 26.
“What pisses me off is that we could avoid that. I blame it on justice, he explains, his voice calm. The killer was due out on December 8. We wanted to protect our sister and we had planned everything so that on the 7th she would be in Morocco with her children. But he was released 15 days before.“
Judicial dysfunction
For Bouchra’s brother, there is clearly a failure of the judicial system. “There can be no remission for someone like that. And we could have at least warned my sister or resorted to the anti-reconciliation bracelet. ” The Bobigny prosecutor’s office had also recognized “a collective failure“.
Unlike two other feminicides which occurred this year in Seine-Saint-Denis (in Sevran in January and in Aubervilliers in September), “Bouchra had reported his situation“, Underlines Ernestine Ronai, head of the Departmental Observatory of Violence against Women in Seine Saint-Denis, which organized the White March. “From the first complaint, his ex-companion was imprisoned. There has been a good assessment of the dangerousness of this man. She had also operated her phone in serious danger during her first release from prison.”
This alert telephone created in Seine-Saint-Denis would have saved more than 1,000 people, including 401 women, since its creation in 2009. But Bouchra did not use it on the day of her murder because she thought he was safe, not knowing his ex-boyfriend had been released earlier than expected.
Protocol to prevent the victim
Abdelkhalek Bouali now wants people to talk about the murder of his sister in order to change the law.
According to Ernestine Ronai, the Ministry of Justice is also in the process of preparing a decree to establish a clear protocol to ensure that the victim is notified when an attacker leaves prison. “It’s important to be there to think about herself and her children, she considers. But we must also say to ourselves that the tribute we are paying to Bouchra this evening is also a tribute that will allow other women not to be victims of this type of dysfunction..”
15th feminicide in Ile-de-France
Shortly after 6:00 p.m., the procession sets off, silent, through the streets of Epinay-sur-Seine towards the town hall. Behind elected officials, members of associations and residents.
“We are very touched by what happened and we wanted to be there“, Confide two young neighbors of Bouchra who describes it as a“golden person, adorable“. “I live in the same building as her“, Says Yasmine. I often came home with her 14 year old daughter. ” She learned about the drama when she got home from school: “I saw everyone gathered at the bottom of my house, I didn’t understand what was going on. ” At his side, Hedji abounds: “it’s shocking because it happened next door to us.”
Bouchra’s feminicide is the 15th in Ile-de-France and 104th in France in the year 2021. “ It’s almost a woman every three daysbreathes Ridvan, one of his eldest daughter’s teachers, whom he knew did not feel safe. It’s not acceptable. The family is torn apart. You have to put yourself in the shoes of the girls who have lost everything. “
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