Despite the mobilization, at least a hundred victims of femicide have been reported since the beginning of the year

A litany of names. Annual march against gender and sexual violence. collages on walls, all over France, for several years; The word feminicide is now used by everyone, including in newspaper headlines; great reason The fight against violence against women that Emmanuel Macron has set for his two five-year terms… but with what results? Since January, more than 100 men have killed their wives or partners. then According to the data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 122 feminicides occurred in 2021, 102 in 2020 – an unprecedented drop in the context of imprisonment – 146 in 2019, 118 in 2018…

“True, there is a fatal side, we are mobilized, we go out on the street and on the contrary we have this number of feminicides that do not weaken. Agrees Pauline Baron, a member of Coordination We All, which is organizing the annual march on Saturday, November 19 in Paris and several cities. It can be demoralizing, but it also brings anger. » The team determined 120 feminicide, meaning “Killing of women or representatives of gender minorities”, since the beginning of the year. Collective femicides by companions or exes, who first received this count with a list of spousal femicides, count to 100.

Sometimes in a hurry, as in this month of November, where nine women died from Tuesday 1^Eh. or once in two days.

Edwidge, 35, in Gard

The last known victim is Edwige. He was 35 years old. On the evening of Saturday, November 12, his 9-year-old son goes to his neighbors in Gard, north of the village of Nimi. His mother had just been killed by multiple stabbings and gunshots. After that, the father killed himself with a gun. The prosecutor’s office of Nimi started an investigation on the charge of “voluntary murder of the spouse, which resulted in suicide”.

On the same day, 600 kilometers away. Journalist of a regional newspaper New Republic Witness a bouquet of roses placed on the lawn of a cream-colored rough pavilion in Savigny, a village in the department of Vienna. It was there that on November 12, Jean-Noel Arlo, 67, a retired construction worker, shot and killed Chantal, his wife, a former secretary at the Agricultural High School. One of their sons found two dead bodies, the man killed himself.

Friday 11, in Bouches-du-Rhone. Rescuers tried unsuccessfully to revive the 34-year-old mother of two young children. Her husband, 43, had just driven away. In his race, he hits a heavy weight, injuring the truck driver, and continues through the fields, on foot. Arrested by the gendarmerie, he admits “He repeatedly punched and kicked his wife, convinced she was casting a spell on him”Aix-en-Provence prosecutor Jean-Luc Blachon said, adding that an autopsy conducted while he was in police custody concluded that “unstable psychiatric condition” and in one “delusional psychosis”.