The perpetrator of the murder of the woman in Besançon admitted this fact during his trial in police custody and was charged with murder, said Cédric Logelin, the city’s public prosecutor, Saturday 22 November, to Agence France-Presse (AFP), confirming initial information from Eastern Republic. The suspect, the victim’s former partner, was placed in pre-trial detention.
The incident occurred Thursday morning, around 7 am, in a former workers’ housing complex on the outskirts of the city. The victim was shot and killed in the parking lot of his apartment building, outside a small building in the neighborhood.
The defendant, who was recently hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, has been sentenced several times between 2019 and 2024 for acts of violence, vandalism, traffic violations, but also moral harassment against another woman, who was also his previous partner. He will be summoned at the end of November by a delegation of prosecutors to respond to a complaint filed against him in February by the victim for “intrusion into private life”.
Warning tool given to victims
In this context, the thirty-year-old was given the “Monshérif” device, which allows women to sound an alert in case of danger by pressing a button. However, the authorities did not do so “knowledge of threats or violence or contact between the victim and the defendant”Mr. Logelin said Thursday during a news conference.
The victim has also filed a complaint against the suspect for damage to his vehicle, the procedure of which has not been communicated to the prosecution. The relationship between the defendant and the victim ended in early 2025.
In France every day, more than three women become victims of femicide or attempted femicide during marriage, and this figure is increasing in one year, according to data from the Inter-Ministerial Mission for the Protection of Women (Miprof) was published Thursday and covers 2024.
In detail, 107 women were victims of marital femicide last year, 270 women were victims of attempted marital femicide, and 906 women were victims of abuse by their partners or ex-partners that resulted in suicide or attempted murder, according to the report published a few days before November 25, the International Day to Combat Violence Against Women.
