This approach follows the conclusions of the IGPN assessment mission, which considered that the police officers who intervened at the couple’s home that evening had not committed any fault.
“It’s the only way to find out what happened.” The family of Aurélie Langelin, 33, victim of feminicide on the night of May 30 to 31, 2021 in Douai (North), filed a complaint for “non-assistance to anyone in danger” against the police who intervened at the couple’s home. that evening, learned franceinfo from their lawyer, Damien Legrand.
This approach follows the conclusions of the IGPN assessment mission, which had been ordered by the Minister of the Interior to identify possible shortcomings. According to this administrative report, carried out in February 2022 but of which the family only recently became aware through the judicial information, the police officers did not commit any fault, reports the lawyer.
A few hours before the death of Aurélie Langelin, four police officers had intervened in her residence for an argument between her companion and a neighbor. “On the spot, the attention of the police force was drawn by the presence among the witnesses of Aurélie”reported in June 2021 the public prosecutor of Douai during a press conference, quoted by France Blue. Aurélie Langelin then presented “Hematoma in his eye and seemed under the influence of alcohol just like Karim”her husband.
“She was objectively exposed to a risk”
The latter, then under electronic bracelet for other facts, is “strongly invited to stay in his home and leave the neighborhood in peace”, underlines the complaint, which franceinfo was able to consult. The police leave and write a daybook in which the presence of Aurélie Langelin is not mentioned. Witnesses heard during the investigation, however, mentioned a “weeping woman”presenting “bruises on the legs” and being insulted by his companion, who threatened to “fuck”of the “to die”of the “abut”, continues the complaint document.
For the victim’s family and his lawyer, “it is indisputable that the death of Aurélie Langelin occurred because the police officers (…) did not come to her aid when she was objectively exposed to a risk”. Especially since one of the police officers present in the apartment had already intervened a year earlier “due to a particularly violent episode” where Karim BA “then attacked Aurélie Langelin by throwing her to the ground and beating her”.
According to Damien Legrand, the IGPN report is the result of “two on-site visits” and the only hearing of the police. He “simply reproduces the remarks made by the officials” And “out of 42 pages, 30 are devoted to a sociological study of the Douais basin to say that there are few means and that violence against women is more important there than elsewhere”. With this complaint filed with the Douai prosecutor, the lawyer hopes to finally obtain “investigations” on the precise circumstances of the intervention of the forces of order that fateful night.