Overview

• Inès Mecellem, 25, was found fatally stabbed at her Poitiers home on September 8 after reporting escalating threats from an ex-partner.
• According to prosecutors, she filed five complaints between July 10 and August 28 detailing strangulations, rapes and death threats.
• She had a ‘téléphone grave danger’ and triggered it twice; on September 6 the suspect was arrested after allegedly trailing her, then released hours later.
• Internal reviews by police and judicial authorities are under way, and the justice minister said he has referred the case to the Inspectorate General of Justice.
• The suspect is still being sought as the family holds funerals today in Gironde and more than 1,200 people joined a march in Poitiers calling for justice and better protection.