So there will probably never be a trial. Less than 48 hours after stabbing Chloé with a fatal knife, her 5-year-old daughter Mickaël Rouffiac succumbed to her injuries. During the night from Thursday to Friday, when the police had just broken down the door of the family apartment, located in a quiet district of Courbevoie, this 41-year-old computer engineer, who had just started an MBA in a high school of commerce, stabbed himself in the throat before jumping from the 2nd floor. The investigation, opened by the Nanterre prosecutor’s office for assassination, is nevertheless continuing.
Transported to hospital in critical condition, the girl’s father could never be heard. The first elements, however, leave little doubt as to the context of the crime: Chloé was probably killed in the context of the conflict between Mickaël Rouffiac and his ex-wife. “This man was looking for every way to destroy his ex. Killing his daughter is the worst he could do to reach her,” said the mother’s lawyer, Me Migueline Rosset. According to our information, he was sentenced on March 16 to an awareness training course on domestic violence as part of a criminal composition. Two weeks earlier, his ex-partner, Chinese, had filed a complaint against him for violence without incapacity.
Cameras in the apartment, a snitch in the phone
If this procedure is the only one of which the prosecution is aware for the time being, it has urgently requested the communication of any complaints. The young woman claims to have filed, between the months of March and April, three other complaints for violence and a last for rape. “For years, my client lived in a climate of psychological violence, there were cameras in the apartment, she was geolocated, monitored. And for a few months, the violence was also physical, ”assures Me Migueline Rosset. Mickaël Rouffiac had also sought justice on numerous occasions in recent weeks. He would have filed a complaint five times against his ex-companion, in particular for violence, blackmail, slanderous denunciation. Contacted, his lawyer did not respond to our requests.
On April 29, his ex-companion had ended up leaving the apartment, supported by an association which had found him a place in a social hotel. If she had, at first, left without her daughter, she had ended up recovering her, five days later, with the help of her lawyer. Mickaël Rouffiac then filed a complaint and stuck posters in the building to try to obtain “information”. He finally saw Chloe again on May 10, when the Nanterre family court was considering the request for a protection order. At the hearing, the computer scientist had highlighted reciprocal violence. An argument that did not convince the magistrates, who issued the next day a protection order, prohibiting him from coming into contact with his former companion and transferring parental authority to the latter.
“He wanted to annihilate him”
“Justice has not failed, the case of this woman has been taken very seriously, insists her lawyer. But she fell into a trap” After the hearing, Mickaël Rouffiac goes home with his daughter. According to our information, the next day, just informed of the court’s decision, he calls his ex-wife to tell her that in accordance with the order, he is packing his bags and preparing to leave the apartment. But no sooner has the young woman arrived than the situation escalates.
Around midnight, the neighbors, alerted by the cries, called the police. When they arrive, Chloe is still alive, certifies her mother, who has managed to get out of the apartment. But Mickaël Rouffiac refuses to let her out. The girl will be found, a few minutes later, lying in the bathtub. Was his action premeditated? The investigation, in any case, was opened for assassination, which implies preparatory acts. “He was determined to break his wife, insists his lawyer. He had gone so far as to call his employer to say that she was giving information to their competitors. It was wrong, of course. He wanted to destroy her, he used his daughter. »