Six policemen, including the boss of the police Gironde, were called this Tuesday before two disciplinary boards as part of the administrative procedure following the féminicide from Merignac, near Bordeaux, where a man had burned his wife alive in the middle of the street, le 4 mai 2021.
Four officers and commissioners, including the Departmental Director of Public Security (DDSP) in Gironde, were summoned to Paris. Against the latter, the council issued a unanimous opinion in favor of a warning. In office for a short time, this commissioner is accused of not having informed, on June 23, the ministerial committees (traveling to Bordeaux) that the Mérignac police officer who took the victim’s complaint, Chahinez Daoud, on March 15, was himself sentenced on February 10 to eight months in prison with a probationary suspension by the Bordeaux Criminal Court for usual violence against his ex-wife
. It is The chained Duck who had revealed the information.
Sanctions also for justice?
Regarding another commissioner, convened in particular for failure to report, the disciplinary council, unanimously again, wished for a temporary exclusion from office of three days.
Two brigadiers were also summoned to Bordeaux, but one was postponed for health reasons. The disciplinary council proposed for the other a sanction of the first group
, the lowest, announced Eric Marrocq, regional secretary of the Alliance union.
Some criticize the national police for its reluctance to control and punish its own agents. There she demonstrated the opposite. Has this same work been done on the justice side? I do not see it
, notes David Le Bars, national secretary of the union of commissioners (SCPN).
The opinions delivered by these two disciplinary councils will now be sent to the Director General of the National Police, Frédéric Veaux, who will decide on the sanction to be taken. In conjunction with the Minister of the Interior.
Wanted, the spouse goes to the police station
But whatever the decisions taken, the drama of Mérignac will have revealed police and judicial breaches. On the police side, there is in particular this episode of March 29, 2021. That day, Moonir Boutaa had gone to the Mérignac police station to complain about not being able to see his children.
This man, who had already been sentenced in 2020 for domestic violence against his wife, was prohibited from coming into contact with her. What he did not stop doing. Worse, on March 15, he tried to strangle her, an assault after which she filed a complaint.
However, this March 29, the officers of the police station recorded the name of Mounir Boutaa who presented himself very angry at the police station. But the host software is not connected to the file of locally wanted people, which would have made it possible to formally identify and challenge
the husband from March 29, deplored in his report the Inspections of the Administration (IGA) and Justice (IGJ).
He contacts his wife despite the ban
On the justice side, as soon as he was imprisoned in the summer of 2020, Mounir Boutaa wrote and called Chahinez Daoud, while he was prohibited from doing so. He threatens her to come to his home as soon as he gets out of prison.
The victim filed a complaint on August 7, 2020. But these facts will never be brought to the attention of the sentence enforcement judge
, further notes the report of the IGA and IGJ. And when the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office learns, in December 2020, of the existence of the procedure, it will dismiss it.
Let’s find collective ways to improve
, insists more than ever David Le Bars, secretary general of the SCPN. In their report, the IGA and the IGJ recommended, last June, to ensure that any future file of perpetrators of domestic violence is accessible and shared by all relevant services
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