Female alleged in Châteauguay | “He exerted excessive control over her”

Marcellin Koman M’Bo, accused of having killed his spouse, would have exercised excessive control over the victim in the months preceding the murder. Simone Mahan felt tracked down and spied on by her husband. The situation had been overturned since she had asked for the divorce, confides her brother.

Nothing was preparing Claude Mahan to bury her little sister Simone last May. The mother, attendant to the beneficiaries, was 45 years old when she was found dead in her home in Châteauguay.

Her husband from the past 20 years, Marcellin Koman M’Bo, is accused of murder. The 49 -year -old nurse is currently awaiting trial.

“They had several problems in their couple. But if you had told me that he was going to kill my sister, I would have put my hand in fire that no, ”says Mahan.

Spy at home?

The couple was on the verge of divorce due to the sickly jealousy and the husband’s insecurity, according to the bereaved brother.

“It was excessive. He exerted excessive control over her, ”he deplores.

He wrongly thought that his wife was cheating on him. Obsessed with the idea that she could be unfaithful, he would have gone so far as to track it down, spy on it, search in his cell phone, perhaps even install microphones in the house, according to the brother’s story.

Simone Mahan was working during the day and her husband in the evening. While she was alone at home with the children, she would have received five or six phone calls. Those of a jealous husband, who wanted to make sure she had not come out in her absence, according to the allegations of Mr. Mahan.

He constantly asked her where she was and hastened to check if she was lying, in addition to the routine checks of her cell phone to find out to whom she spoke, says the victim’s brother. Their social circle was limited to the people of their church and to the friends of the husband.

Claude Mahan evokes a disturbing anecdote. Her little sister had told her husband that she was going to go shopping at the Walmart. He would then have followed her, parking in the parking lot of the store without his knowledge to check if she was there. “She was very surprised to find him there,” reports Mr. Mahan.

Marcellin Koman would even have asked one of their children to monitor the victim’s comings and goings in his absence.

Simone would have felt tracked and spied on, he continues. She happened to discuss her with her family on the phone when she found herself alone at home.

During the arguments, her husband allegedly reproached her for things she remembered having mentioned in telephone conversations in the absence of the latter.

“It was overwhelmed and fell from the clouds. She told herself that he may have installed microphones to listen to him, “laments Claude Mahan.

On the verge of divorce

The separation was inevitable in the mind of Simone Mahan. She would have offered her husband for the past 20 years to settle it all amicably. Marcellin Koman M’Bo would have started to take antidepressants shortly after this announcement, confirmed to The press Friends close to the couple.

Claude Mahan asked her sister if she felt in danger. “She told us no. There was no physical violence, ”he said.

Relatives of m^me Mahan and friends who frequent the same church have served as mediators with Marcellin Koman M’Bo, who did not digest the break.

“He seemed to be confused, but no one saw this climbing of violence coming,” explains Mr. Mahan.

“My children will never forgive me”

The accused would have asked his daughter to leave the family home on the day of the murder. He would have just told him that he “had to speak to his mother,” said the fact of Mr. Mahan’s facts.

He would have killed his spouse soon after. Even more disturbing, he would then have called his daughters and certain family members. In these conversations reported to the victim’s brother, he would have declared “having committed the irreparable”, “having fed up” and intended to kill himself.

“My children will never forgive me,” he said to a loved one on the phone before being located by the police.

Dangerous situations

The story of Simone Mahan looks like a typical coercive control case on the part of a spouse, according to Claudine Thibodeau, responsible for files related to this issue, with domestic violence.

We often associate the danger with cries, blows, insults. However, situations where there is no physical violence can be just as dangerous, estimates the expert.

“Even the victim may not have put the word” violence “on these behaviors,” says Mr.^me Thibodeau.

It can be difficult to file a complaint to the police or to denounce coercive control, which is exercised by a set of behaviors aimed at scareing the victim and exercising control over it. Coercive control is not criminal in the eyes of the law, she recalls.

The time of rupture is often critical for partners victims of domestic violence. “By separating, we resume power over his life,” notes Claudine Thibodeau. The violent partner seeks control. We see here that acts of control and surveillance can lead to alleged female. »»

Claude Mahan is now recovering from justice, his only hope of healing in the face of mourning. He fears that the judicial process will exterminate. But above all, he hopes that the accused will not try to play the mental disorders card.

Marcellin Koman M’Bo, accused of premeditated murder, intends to request his provisional freedom during the judicial process. A request that makes Claude Mahan uncomfortable.

“There are his spouse in disturbing circumstances. We hope that justice will be done for my sister and that the system will do its job. »»