New feminicide. In Mayotte, a 33-year-old woman was killed by her husband, indicted and imprisoned Thursday for the murder of her partner in a context of separation. The police are still looking for the body of the young woman, who has been missing since Sunday. “The defendant, already convicted of acts of domestic violence on another companion”, was indicted Thursday for “domestic homicide”, according to a press release from the prosecution.
The 33-year-old young woman, originally from the Loire department, was an architect in Mamoudzou. On Sunday, her 29-year-old husband reported her missing, before her roommates notified the police and her disappearance was confirmed the next day by her employer.
In search of accomplices
Two days later, her spouse “appeared at the M’Tsamboro gendarmerie, in the north of the island and spontaneously declared that he had killed his companion”, specifies Véronique Compan, deputy prosecutor at the Mamoudzou judicial court, in a press release. .
The facts took place in Mamoudzou at the home of the respondent, according to the prosecution, which adds that during his police custody the man maintained that he had, “against a background of jealousy, put an end to the days of his companion by strangulation”, before depositing the body “in a dumpster”. The police, who are trying to find out if accomplices helped hide the body, said they searched a garbage dump but have so far found nothing. The man was placed in pre-trial detention by the judge of freedoms and detention.
The number of feminicides increased by 20% in France in 2021 compared to the previous year, with 122 women killed under the blows of their spouse or ex-spouse, according to the latest figures available from the Ministry of the Interior.