femicide

French government accused of remaining ‘scandalously’ silent on grim start to the year for women and girls.

Several French police officers, including a commissioner, two commanders and a brigadier, face being disciplined over a “series of failures” in the case of a woman who had filed a complaint for violence against her husband who is accused of later shooting her in the street and then setting her on fire with petrol. 

Bruno Garcia-Cruciani’s murder of Julie Douib in Corsica became a rallying call against domestic killings.

The French interior ministry recorded 121 femicides in 2018, a murder every three days.