Barely thirty kilometers separated these two women, both victims of a relentlessness of their spouse or ex, on Friday and Saturday May 2 and 3, in Isère. Nelissa was 56 years old and, like many victims of feminicides, died of having wanted to break with her companion, according to information from Dauphiné liberated. According to the study of the dead within the couple of the Ministry of the Interior, 26% of the feminicides committed in 2023 were “In the context of a separation not accepted”. This woman from the Philippines, who was waiting for retirement to find her family, was in the process of divorce. After twenty-five years of common life, the couple had been separated for three years. Found unconscious by his son, in his apartment in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, the fifties could not be resuscitated by the rescuers. She was strangled.
“No complaints for violence within the couple had been reported before these facts. The couple was so far unknown to the police or gendarmerie services, and was not the subject of any particular follow -up ”, said, on Saturday in a press release, the Bourgoin-Jallieu prosecutor’s office, quoted by the newspaper. The suspect was quickly arrested on Friday, then placed in police custody, as part of an investigation for “murder on spouse”, opened by the prosecution. According to the Dauphiné liberatedthis man would have recognized the facts in hearing. The couple was a parent of two adult children, taken care of by the medico-psychological emergency unit of Lyon.
A few hours later, in the night from Friday to Saturday, a 46-year-old woman, whose first name is not known, was beaten at her home in Grand-Lemps, completely devastated. “SWe ex-spouse, implicated in the context of this case, is actively sought“Indicates the Bourgoin-Jallieu prosecutor’s office on the radio here Isère. An arrest warrant was issued against the one suspected of having left it for dead. He does not present “No judicial history relating to acts of intra-family violence”.
This woman had been transported in absolute emergency to Voiron with a committed vital prognosis. Always hospitalized in intensive care, his condition has since improved. In 2023, 96 women were victims of marital feminicide in France, according to the latest assessment of the Ministry of the Interior. At the end of April, 47 women killed because of their gender have been identified since the beginning of 2025 by the militant count of the inter -organ.
If this data is less publicized, attempts at homicides within the couple have significantly increased since 2019. 451 have been identified in 2023, or 12% of the total of homicide attempts. Among these victims, 327 are women. Four years earlier, 268 homicide attempts had been reported (9% of the total).
