Four officers and commissioners, including the Departmental Director of Public Security (DDSP) in Gironde Martin Levrel, are summoned to Paris while a brigadier is to Bordeaux.
Another brigadier, who had initially requested a postponement of his summons after an ankle operation, withdrew his request. His appearance will take place in the afternoon by videoconference.
On May 4, in Mérignac, in the suburbs of Bordeaux, Chahinez Daoud was shot and wounded before being set on fire in the street by her violent husband from whom she was separated. Already convicted of acts of domestic violence, the latter, who had just been released from prison, had again threatened his wife. She had filed a complaint two months before being killed.
In September, a report by the IGPN, the “police of the police”, had established that errors or errors of appreciation had been made by several agents within the framework of this feminicide which had triggered a wave of emotion.
In its conclusions, the IGPN did not, however, recommend the summons to the disciplinary council, a decision ultimately taken by the director general of the national police (DGPN) Frédéric Veaux.
Among the four hierarchical superiors – three men and one woman – include, in addition to the DDSP, the commander of the western division and his deputy as well as the commissioner of Mérignac.
The sanctions likely to be proposed by the disciplinary bodies, where the trade unions are present, will then be transmitted to the General Directorate of the National Police (DGPN) which will ultimately decide whether or not to validate them.
Earlier, in July, Le Canard Enchaîné had revealed that the Mérignac policeman who had taken Ms. Daoud’s complaint on March 15 had been sentenced on February 10 to eight months in prison, suspended probation, by the Bordeaux criminal court for “violence usual on his ex-spouse”. A disciplinary council met in September in Bordeaux to examine his case.
According to union sources, the fact that this peacekeeper was deprived by the court of his right of eligibility for a year led to his disbarment from the national police.
Another consequence of this affair, the former DDSP of Gironde Patrick Mairesse was sanctioned with a reprimand, without disciplinary summons, according to these same sources. He had been replaced in this function in March by Mr. Levrel, becoming zonal director of public security.
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