The woman found dead on Friday evening in Paris died of strangulation. His companion, a policeman, is still on the run.
The trail of feminicide confirmed: the young woman discovered lifeless Friday evening in an apartment in Paris died of strangulation according to the autopsy while her companion, a police officer known for domestic violence, is still at large, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Sunday .
The medical findings made during the autopsy on Saturday afternoon confirm the “criminal trail” and are “compatible with the death of the victim by strangulation”, according to this source. The body of the victim was found on Friday by police officers from the 19th arrondissement of Paris.
They had gone to the home of the 29-year-old peacekeeper after being alerted by his colleagues from Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis), worried about not hearing from him when he was supposed to. to take up his post on Friday at the start of the afternoon.
Found in the bathroom
“He had contacted his service to say that he would not come. But then he no longer answered the calls,” according to a source familiar with the matter. At his home, the man, who joined the police in 2012, is absent. On the other hand, the police find the body of his companion in the bathroom. Aged 28, she was not a police officer.
An investigation was immediately opened for “intentional homicide on a partner”, but the investigators of the second judicial police district were awaiting the results of the autopsy to clarify the circumstances of the death of the young woman.
According to a source close to the investigation, the suspect is the owner of a white city car, which he is likely to have used to flee, and he is probably armed with his service weapon. He was still wanted on Sunday, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. The policeman was taken into custody in October 2019 for violence against his partner at the time, according to a police source. He was then sentenced to an alternative to prosecution for domestic violence, according to a judicial source.
He “had been the subject of a summons for an awareness course on domestic violence”, indicated a police source. Administratively, he had been sanctioned with a warning, according to the same source.
He was the subject of “social monitoring”
The warning is a disciplinary sanction of the first group, the lowest in the public service, and is not the subject of any mention in the file of the agent. He was also the subject of “social follow-up”, provided by psychologists, social workers and prevention doctors.
In addition, in June, the suspect “had requested the intervention of the police for a disagreement with his companion who would have been violent with him. He had a swollen face,” according to the police source. “@EmmanuelMacron @1ElisaMoreno you have a responsibility to protect these women. How is a police officer known for acts of violence still on duty?! This feminicide could have been avoided”, reacted on Saturday on Twitter the feminist collective #Noustoutes.
“We are doing everything to find this man who is dangerous because we must never underestimate the dangerousness of the perpetrators of domestic violence”, had for her part declared on BFMTV the Minister Delegate in charge of Equality between women and men Elisabeth Moreno.
According to a report from the Ministry of the Interior, 146 women were victims of feminicide in 2019, and 102 in 2020. Femicide is the final stage of violence suffered by more than 200,000 women per year.
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