On the day of October 20, a 17-year-old girl from Rouen was stabbed to death. The main suspect tried to flee before being apprehended by the police.
The body of a teenage girl was found lifeless in an apartment in the Grand’Mare district of Rouen on October 20. According to information from France 3 Normandie, which reports this news, the young girl who died was only 17 years old. This runaway minor was followed by a paramedical association. She allegedly tried, on several occasions, to report the domestic violence she said she was experiencing.
Almost immediately, suspicion fell on the young girl’s ex-boyfriend, also indicates France 3 Normandie. Toufik O., aged 22, was already known to the police for acts of domestic violence and cases related to drugs.
According to Sébastien Gallois, the public prosecutor of Rouen, who published a press release yesterday, a “manhunt” quickly began after the identification of the suspect. The alleged perpetrator allegedly went so far as to shave his beard and hair to go unnoticed. But around 6 p.m., the police ended up intercepting him as he tried to flee near the Saint-Lazare station, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. In less than two hours, they managed to apprehend and arrest him.
A little earlier, Toufik O. had asked his brother to book him a plane ticket to Algeria, departing from Orly airport, according to information from Le Figaro and TF1. Once the service was rendered, the latter would have gone to his brother’s home to question him.
There, he allegedly discovered an apartment stained with blood and the naked body of the victim lying on a bed. According to descriptions made by the aforementioned media, which rely on police sources, the young woman died after having suffered acts of great violence: marks of several stab wounds were found on her body.
To bring order to this matter, the judicial police were seized of the investigation, opened for the charge of assassination. She is responsible for shedding light on the circumstances of the tragedy and the motivations of the suspect.
In 2023, thirty of the ninety-four recorded victims of femicide were known to the police. In an article in the newspaper Le Monde, the former Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, already called for doing better on the subject: “We need to improve, that is to say we is not fast enough, not strong enough, not attentive enough. According to the Nous Tous collective, this Sunday, October 20 would mark the 108th feminicide of the year 2024.