Overview
- Olivier Christen said Friday the national anti-terror office will not take over the file, which stays with the Montpellier prosecutor.
- Christen called the killings terrifying with a masculinist angle and said Montpellier is competent to pursue the gravest charges while stressing judicial independence.
- The Haut Conseil à l'Égalité urged an anti-terror referral and backed a citizen petition from Mouv'enfants that surpassed 10,000 signatures with support from Osez le féminisme!.
- Cédric Prizzon, a 42-year-old former police officer, was arrested March 25 in Portugal with his two children and is suspected of killing his ex-partner and his current partner.
- Autopsies indicate both women were asphyxiated after vanishing in Aveyron on March 20, and a 2025 anti-terror case against a self-identified incel now frames the debate over whether to treat such misogynist violence as terrorism.