As a third of the victims of female, she had alerted the authorities. Tatiana Mevel, a woman killed by her former 38-year-old spouse in the night from Friday to Saturday August 9 in Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets (Ille-et-Vilaine), had filed a complaint against her former partner, said the public prosecutor of Saint-Malo. After the assassination of his ex-partner, the man had fled before being killed by a gendarme.
“The victim of the assassination had filed a complaint twice against his former partner”according to the prosecutor’s press release. The first time in mid-July to say that he “Send her many messages, tried to join her frequently by phone and presented herself regularly at her home” after their separation; A second time on August 2 because she “Suspected his former partner of having degraded her vehicle”still according to the prosecutor’s press release.
In her first complaint, Tatiana Mevel “Affirmed that he had never been the victim of physical, verbal or sexual violence or a threat of death from the person concerned”.
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The man had assaulted his former 39 -year -old companion with a stabbing weapon in the street, on the night of Friday to Saturday. He was then located at his home in Taden (Côtes-d’Armor), about twenty kilometers from Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets.
When the gendarmes had tried to challenge him, he had threatened them with a machete and had had “A very threatening active attitude towards the soldiers of the gendarmerie”according to the press release. After trying to repel him with a taser, a gendarme had used his weapon. Despite the rescue intervention, the man died a few minutes later.
The Saint-Malo prosecution prescribed the opening of two investigations. A first was immediately opened in flagrance of the assassination chief. A second flagration investigation, entrusted to the general inspection of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN), was opened by the chief of violence with the use of a weapon that led to death without the intention of giving it. The autopsies of the bodies of the two dead were performed on Monday, the prosecution said.
In 2023, 96 women were victims of marital feminicide in France, a figure down 19 % compared to 2022, according to the latest assessment of the Interior Ministry published at the end of November 2024.