Gérald Darmanin has requested an administrative investigation from the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN) after the murder on Friday in Gironde of a woman by her ex-husband against whom she had filed two complaints. The victim was killed at his home by several stab wounds by his former companion.
Gérald Darmanin has requested an administrative investigation from the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN) after the murder on Friday in Gironde of a woman by her ex-husband against whom she had filed two complaints, AFP learned on Saturday from the Ministry of the Interior. The victim, aged around 50, was killed at his home in Saint-Laurent-d’Arce by several stab wounds to the throat and stomach by his former companion, who was found hanged in the garage .
Two complaints filed by the victim
The couple had been separated since “mid-January” and the woman “had filed a complaint on February 5 and then February 23” at the Saint-André-de-Cubzac gendarmerie for “violence without incapacity” and “dissemination of images infringing on the intimacy of his private life,” Libourne prosecutor Olivier Kern said in a statement.
The 62-year-old man was sentenced in 2006 by the Gironde Assize Court to twenty years’ imprisonment for an attempted murder committed in 2003 on a former spouse, said the prosecutor. He was the subject of “a conditional reduction measure” by the sentence enforcement judge and resided in the town of Montendre (Charente-Maritime), with a ban on entering into a relationship with this former companion, added the floor.
The number of feminicides increased by 20% in France in 2021 compared to the previous year, with 122 women killed under the blows of their spouse or ex-spouse, against 102 in 2020, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior .