Overview

• About 1,000 people joined a marche blanche in Poitiers on September 20 to honor Inès and denounce institutional failures to protect her.
• The Poitiers prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation for assassination, and the IGPN is conducting an administrative review of police conduct.
• Prosecutor Rachel Bray said officers intercepted the ex-companion days before the killing but did not place him in custody.
• Inès filed an initial complaint on July 10 and five supplements over two months, and she used a 'téléphone grave danger' two days before her death to report being stalked.
• The main suspect, described as an Afghan refugee and former partner, remains at large, and the family accuses police and the justice system of failing to act.