IThe challenge wanted to kill. The 36-year-old man suspected of having shot down his ex-partner by the RD1215 road, in Moulis-en-Médoc, on the night of Tuesday July 8 to Wednesday, July 9, pleads the accidental shot. This Friday, July 11, during a press conference, the public prosecutor of Bordeaux, Renaud Gaudeul, made details on this alleged female revealed by “Sud Ouest”.
The alert was given at 1:15 am on July 9, by residents, awakened by a shot. When they arrived on site, at a place called Bouqueyran, along the RD1215, the gendarmes discovered the lifeless body of a 42-year-old woman, mother of three children aged 25, 17 and 6 years old, who had been living in her eldest daughter since January in Castelnau-de-Médoc. The body, pierced by a bullet, lay in front of the victim’s car, an engine running.
The forties was quickly identified. The investigators learned from her family entourage “that she had had a short -term relationship with a man who had been able to show himself, in a recent past, threatening and violating with him and that a telephone altercation had intervened the same day,” said the prosecutor. The couple had been separated for a few weeks.
He calls an ex and says he killed
These first suspicions were reinforced by a telephone call, received the night of the drama by the police in Bordeaux. “An ex-partner of the suspect phoned the police station and indicated that the suspect had just contacted her and tell him that he had killed the victim. The police immediately warned the gendarmerie, ”explains Renaud Gaudeul.
An hour and twenty minutes after the discovery of the deceased, the suspect was arrested behind the wheel of his car, on Dr. 2, in Ludon-Médoc, while he was on the road to Bordeaux. 36 -year -old wine worker from Pauillac, Mickaël Bouscarrut was challenged without difficulty. He was then alcoholic and under cocaine. In his vehicle, a 12, 17 cartridges of the same caliber and a lead rifle were found.
The body of the victim was discovered by the roadside, in front of his car, in Moulis-en-Médoc.
Julien Lestage
“In police custody, as before the investigating judge, the person concerned admitted to being the author of the shot and explained that it was an accidental shot. According to him, he would have taken out his rifle to commit suicide and a blow would have left accidentally, reaching the victim, ”adds the prosecutor.
These explanations did not convince. Presented to an investigating judge Thursday, July 10, the thirties, who still benefits from the presumption of innocence, was indicted for “murder by spouse”, a crime punishable by life imprisonment, and placed in pre -trial detention. Contacted by “Sud Ouest”, his lawyer has not wished to express himself, for the moment.
“Even if we have progressed, three out of four facts of domestic violence are not reported”
Already known to justice, mainly for road crimes, he was sentenced, in 2019, for domestic violence on a former companion. “He had done his sentence without incident,” says Renaud Gaudeul.
A lot of violence is killed
The violence and threats he would have subjected to the deceased before the drama, denounced by the relatives of the latter, “had not been reported to any police or gendarmerie service, neither by the victim, nor by his entourage,” said the prosecutor. “This shows the path that we still have to make to bite domestic violence on the gray figure, that is to say all those which are not brought to our knowledge,” insists the magistrate.
“Even if we have progressed, three out of four facts of domestic violence is not reported, according to the latest comparative study between data from the police and gendarmerie services and victimology surveys. We must continue the work on which we are all mobilized. When the facts are denounced, there is a judicial response and the possibility of deploying protection tools such as serious danger phones or anti-primacing bracelets, “he continues.
Entrusted to the gendarmes of the Lesparre company, the investigations are now continuing under the management of an investigating judge. They will have to answer several questions. In particular why did the victim suddenly leave his daughter’s home during the night? Was it drawn to a trap?