Overview

• About a thousand people joined a marche blanche in Poitiers on Saturday to honor Inès Mecellem and denounce institutional failures.
• Prosecutors are investigating for assassination and the suspected ex‑companion, an Afghan refugee born in 1989, remains at large.
• Police detained the suspect on September 6 after the victim triggered her danger phone, but he was not placed in custody and was released.
• An administrative probe by the IGPN is underway and the justice minister has requested an operational inspection by the Inspection générale de la justice.
• The victim’s mother has filed a complaint for non‑assistance against Poitiers police and witness hearings are in progress, according to sources close to the case.