Gérald Darmanin requests an investigation by the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie

Gérald Darmanin has requested an administrative investigation from the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN) after the murder on Friday in Gironde of a woman by her ex-spouse, AFP learned on Saturday March 4 from the Ministry of the Interior. . Wife “had filed a complaint on February 5 and then on February 23” to the gendarmerie of Saint-André-de-Cubzac for “violence without incapacity” and “dissemination of images infringing on the intimacy of his private life”, explained Friday the prosecutor of Libourne, Olivier Kern, in a press release .

The victim, aged 54, was killed at his home in Saint-Laurent-d’Arce by several stab wounds to the throat and stomach by his former companion. He was found hanged in the garage. The couple had been separated for “mid-January”,

The 62-year-old man was sentenced in 2006 by the Gironde Assize Court to twenty years’ imprisonment for an attempted murder committed in 2003 on a former spouse, said the prosecutor. He was the subject of“a conditional reduction measure” by the sentence enforcement judge and resided in the town of Montendre (Charente-Maritime), with a ban on entering into a relationship with this former companion, added the prosecution.