妻を焼殺した男の裁判開始 フランス

【ボルドーＡＦＰ＝時事】フランスとアルジェリアの二重国籍を持ち、２０２１年に妻を焼殺した男の裁判が２４日、フランス南西部ボルドーで始まった。事件は国内に衝撃を与え、また警察が女性を保護するための適切な対応を怠ったとして強い批判を招いた。（写真は資料写真）
　建設作業員のムニール・ブタア被告（４８）は、アルジェリア生まれの妻で、３人の子の母親だったシャヒネズ・ダウドさん（当時３１）を２１年に焼殺した。
　被告はそれ以前にもダウドさんの首をしめ、ナイフで脅した罪で服役した後、２０２０年末に出所。
　裁判所はダウドさんへの接近禁止命令を出していたが、ブタア被告はダウドさんとの同居を２１年３月まで続け、その後、ダウドさんは再び、ブタア被告によるドメスティックバイオレンス（ＤＶ）を警察に通報していた。
　ブタア被告はストーカー行為を繰り返し、ボルドー近郊にあったダウドさん宅の外にワゴン車を止め、隠れて監視を継続。
　２１年５月４日、路上でダウドさんを襲い、両脚を銃で撃ち、ガソリンをかけて火をつけて死に至らしめた。その後間もなく逮捕された。
　ブタア被告は、前のパートナーへのＤＶでも告発されていた。
　一方、事件後、ダウドさんから通報を受けていた警察官が適切な対応を怠っていたことが明らかになり、正式な調査が開始された。ダウドさんには、ＤＶ被害を訴える女性が警察に危険を直接通報できる電話端末が提供されていなかった。一方、ブタア被告には、ダウドさんに接近した場合に警察が検知できる電子ブレスレットが装着されなかった。
　ダウドさんの通報を受けたこの警察官自身も、少し前にＤＶで有罪判決を受けていた。調査の結果、警察官５人に対する処分が下された。
　ダウドさんの遺族は、「重大な失態」に対して国を訴える訴訟を起こしている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/03/25-18:27）

A French-Algerian man went on trial in France on Monday for burning to death his wife in 2021, a case that shocked the public and sparked heavy criticism of police for failing to take adequate measures to protect her.
In 2021 Mounir Boutaa, now 48, stalked his Algerian-born wife Chahinez Daoud following their separation, and even bought a van he parked outside her house near Bordeaux in southwestern France, which he used to watch her without being detected himself.
On May 4 of that year, he attacked her in the street, shot her in both legs, poured petrol on her and set her on fire.
A neighbour hearing the screams tried to intervene but it was too late for Daoud. When her body was recovered, it was completely charred. She was 31 and a mother of three.
Boutaa, who filmed part of the horrific scene, was arrested shortly afterward.
I wanted to burn her, he told police after his arrest, for all the things that she and the judiciary did.
He denied any intention to kill his wife, saying he had wanted instead to punish her, burn her a little and make sure she would keep marks.
Boutaa, a builder, had been released from prison at the end of 2020 after serving time for choking his wife and threatening her with a knife.
He had already been accused of domestic violence against a previous partner.
The court issued a restraining order, saying he could not approach Daoud, but they started living together again until March 2021, when she filed another police complaint against her husband.
Investigators later found the handling of her complaint by a policeman -- himself found guilty of domestic violence not long before -- severely lacking, and opened an inquiry into a series of police failures.
The victim was not given a serious danger phone that allows women to alert the authorities directly, and her husband was not made to wear an electronic bracelet that could have allowed police to detect his movements in her vicinity.
The investigation resulted in sanctions against five police officers. The victim's family has since also launched a case against the French state for serious failures.
Dozens of people demonstrated outside the courthouse Monday to protest against the handling of the case.
We're here mostly to speak out against the authorities, the government that fails to do its job, said one demonstrator who declined to give her name. Especially against the police who don't protect women.
According to French interior ministry figures, there were 96 cases of domestic femicide in 2023 in France, 19 percent fewer than the previous year.