“Today, a woman is between life and death. On June 12, another died stabbed by her companion, here in Blois. How many feminicides will it take to change that? » Estelle (the people mentioned wished to remain anonymous), in her fifties, came to brave the drizzle to participate, on Tuesday evening, December 20, in a rally in front of the gates of the police station, quai Saint-Jean, at the call of the collective Droit des women 41. One hundred and thirty people were counted by the authorities.
A week earlier, on December 13 at 7 p.m., a 24-year-old young woman named Chloé was discovered unconscious and seriously injured in the skull, in the hall of a small two-storey building, rue Croix-Boissée. She has since been plunged into an artificial coma at the University Hospital of Tours. His former companion, aged 27, was arrested on December 15 in the Paris region. He admitted the facts. “An investigating judge was seized for attempted murder by a former spouse or cohabitant, the defendant was indicted on this count”explained the prosecutor of the Republic of Blois, Charlotte Beluet.
This attack amazes the demonstrators all the more as it could have been avoided. Two hours before, Chloé had gone to the Blois police station to report the harassment and threats of her ex-boyfriend already known to the courts for acts of violence. According to the daily The New Republic, his refusal of a forced conversion to Islam, the religion of the young man, had precipitated tensions, triggered violence against the victim and finally their breakup in early December, after four months of relationship. But when Chloé entered the police station, she was quickly told that her complaint would not be registered the same day and that she could go – alone – home. “It appeared that on the day of the events, around 5 p.m., she had presented herself at the reception of the Blois police station and that she had been invited to represent herself the next day”confirmed the public prosecutor of Blois in her press release of Friday, December 16.
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The IGPN, the police force, was seized, the same day, at the request of the prefect of Loir-et-Cher, François Pesneau, “in order to know precisely the conditions in which the victim had been, shortly before the events, received at the police station”. Pending his conclusions, the police officer who did not take the young woman’s complaint was suspended as a precaution. The socialist mayor of Blois, Marc Gricourt, demands action: “If there has been a malfunction, sanctions will have to be taken. What happened is dreadful, terrible, intolerable. »
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