The 32-year-old former female companion who was shot dead outside her home on Thursday morning in Besançon (Doubs) was charged with murder and placed in pre-trial detention on Saturday, we learned from the city’s public prosecutor.
The defendant, aged 34, admitted these facts during his trial in police custody, Cédric Logelin also explained, confirming initial information from L’Est Républicain.
The incident occurred Thursday morning, around 07.00, 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.
It’s been punished
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.
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He will be summoned at the end of November by a delegation of prosecutors following a complaint filed against him in February by the victim for “intrusion of privacy”.
In this context, the thirty-year-old woman was given a “sheriff” device that allows women to sound an alert in case of danger by pressing a button. However, authorities were not “aware of any threats or violence or contact between the victim and the defendant,” 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.
107 feminicides by 2024
In France every day, more than three women become victims of femicide or attempted femicide in marriage, a figure that has risen in one year, according to data from the inter-ministerial mission for the protection of women (Miprof) published Thursday and covering the year 2024.
In detail, last year, 107 women were victims of marital femicide, 270 women were victims of attempted femicide within marriage, and 906 women were victims of abuse by their partners or ex-partners which resulted in suicide or attempts, according to the report published a few days before November 25, the international day to combat violence against women.
