A woman burned by her partner dies near Bordeaux
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on BFMTV
A mother, badly burned by her partner who had started a fire in the bedroom where he had shut himself in with her, died overnight on 14–15 November near Bordeaux, according to the Libourne prosecutor’s office. The man died in the fire; the investigation for attempted femicide has been reclassified as spousal homicide, and an autopsy of the victim has been ordered.
The mother, seriously burned in the bedroom where her partner had locked himself in with her near Bordeaux, died overnight on Saturday into Sunday, according to the Libourne prosecutor’s office. Loïs Raschel, public prosecutor in Libourne, told AFP that the investigation, initially opened for attempted femicide, has now been reclassified as spousal homicide, and that an autopsy has been ordered.
The partner, born in 1978, died in the fire at the family home in Saint-Denis-de-Pile, Gironde, France, last Tuesday. Born in 1980, the victim had been rushed to the Bordeaux hospital centre. The alert was raised at around 11pm on Tuesday by one of the couple’s three children, who told gendarmes that the father had locked himself in a bedroom with their mother, with a can of petrol, before setting fire to it.
At the end of October, the victim had contacted the gendarmerie to say that her partner had tried to hit her, while the couple was in the process of separating. She did not, however, want to lodge a complaint or be questioned, according to the same prosecutor’s office.
For 2025, the Interior Ministry counts 111 women killed by a partner or ex-partner in France, 4% more than a year earlier.
