“This drama is experienced as a collective failure”. A protocol to systematically inform victims when their attacker leaves detention will be concluded “very quickly”, assures the Bobigny prosecution. A march in tribute to the victim of feminicide will leave on December 9 at the foot of the Epinay tower where she died.
“A protocol making it possible to systematically inform victims about releases from detention, not only when the texts provide for it, but above all in all other situations, will be concluded very quickly” after “precise analysis of the reasons” of the drama, declared the parquet floor of Bobigny.
This announcement from the prosecution follows the death of a woman, Bouchra, stabbed to death on Friday night as she walked home. His ex-companion, the main suspect, was indicted on Monday for “spousal murder” and remanded in custody. In police custody, the 51-year-old man “generally acknowledged the facts” but denied having come with the intention of killing the victim, although he had purchased a kitchen knife before the appointment.
Already sentenced in July for violence against this mother in her forties, he was returned to detention in October following the revocation of part of his reprieve.
Despite the ban, he had indeed gone to the home of this woman who had activated her grave danger phone, a remote assistance service to request emergency intervention from the police.
He was finally released on November 17, which the victim did not know. She didn’t have her grave danger phone on her the night of the incident. “There is nothing to confirm that the victim was notified of the release of her ex-spouse from the Fleury-Mérogis remand center”nine days before the facts, acknowledged the prosecution, however emphasizing the “particular determination” of the suspect. In this case, the sentencing judge had no “obligation” to inform the victim. “With hindsight, it would have been better to do so, and this tragedy is experienced as a collective failure”, said the prosecution.
“The best tribute we can pay to this woman is to improve the device so that it does not happen to another woman”, reacted Ernestine Ronai, feminist activist and head of the Departmental Observatory of Seine-Saint-Denis on violence against women
Release from prison must be notified to the person victims of domestic violencecontinues Ernestine Ronai. “SIf this woman had known that her husband was released from prison, she would have taken his emergency phone” and this tragedy could have been avoided, she explains.
A march in tribute to Bouchra, co-organized by the town of Épinay-sur-Seine, the Observatory departmental et the association SOS women 93 will leave on December 9 at the foot of the tower where she died.
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