Teenage girl killed in Rouen: the modus operandi of the crime is strikingly violent

On the day of October 20, a young woman from Rouen aged 17 ;nbsp;years old was stabbed to death. The main suspect tried to flee before being apprehended by the police.

The body of a teenage girl was found lifeless in an apartment in the Grand Mare district of Rouen on October 20. According to information from France 3 Normandie, which reported this news, the young girl who died was only 17 years old. This runaway minor was being monitored by a paramedical association. She is said to have tried, several times, to report the domestic violence she said she was experiencing.

Almost immediately, suspicions fell on the young girl's ex-boyfriend, France 3 Normandie also reports. Toufik O., aged 22, was already known to the police for domestic violence and drug-related matters.

According to Sébastien Gallois, the Rouen public prosecutor, who published a press release yesterday, a “manhunt” quickly began after the suspect was identified. The alleged perpetrator reportedly went so far as to shave his beard and hair to go unnoticed. But around 6pm, the police finally stopped him as he tried to flee from the Saint-Lazare train station in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. In less than two hours, they managed to apprehend and arrest him.

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A little earlier, Toufik O. had asked his brother to book him a plane ticket to Algeria, departing from Orly airport, according to information from Le Figaro and TF1. Once the service was rendered, the latter allegedly went to his brother's home to question him.

There, he allegedly discovered an apartment smeared with blood and the victim's naked body lying on a bed. According to descriptions made by the aforementioned media, which rely on police sources, the young woman allegedly found death after having suffered acts of great violence: marks of several stab wounds were found on his body.

To bring order to this affair, the judicial police were seized of the investigation, opened on the charge of murder. It is responsible for shedding light on the circumstances of the tragedy and the suspect's motivations.

In 2023, thirty of the ninety-four recorded victims of femicide were known to the police. In an article in the newspaper Le Monde, the former Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, already called for do better on the subject: “We need to improve, that is to say, we are not fast enough, not strong enough, not listening enough”.”According to the collective Nous Toutes, this Sunday, October 20, would mark the 108th femicide of the year 2024.