"I'm scared all the time, we've been apart for two years and he still wants to kill me"

  After the terrible feminicide of Mérignac, Olivia, who lives near Montpellier, decided to speak. Her ex-partner harasses her, despite the complaints she makes, and she feels helpless.

The horrible death of Chahinez, burned alive by her husband on May 4 in Mérignac, served as a trigger. "We don't want you to be next," her friends told Olivia, who have been supporting her for two years in the face of her ex-partner who harasses her. At 40, this mother of two, who lives in the greater Montpellier area, lives on the alert.

"I'm not paranoid, but I'm scared all the time. In the car, I look to see if I'm not being followed. I'm in a survival strategy all the time." Since her separation in 2019 from the father of her children, after 18 years of living together, she has filed 23 complaints. Her car burned, her mailbox was torn several times, her phone was hacked, she found herself registered on libertine sites or with offensive tags on the walls of her residence.

"He usurped my banking identity, sent emails to my general manager saying that I was offering sexual services." A year ago, he was given a one-year suspended sentence for harassment and threats, and a ban on approaching him. He appealed, and the pressure didn't stop. Last example, this email, received at the end of April: "You will die, but you will really suffer before!"

“I'm not going to be able to live my whole life like this. This shadow, behind me, will it still be there?”

So Olivia files new complaints, and talks, to try to make things happen. "I'm not going to be able to live my whole life like this. This shadow, behind me, is it going to always be there? Her fixation is destroying me. What's scary is this obsession that does not diminish. We've been apart for two years, and he still wants to kill me. " Difficult, in these conditions not to consider the worst: "I am afraid that he will attack the children to reach me. It is horrible to say to oneself how I prepare the continuation? I have already taken two life insurance policies, that at least my funeral is paid. "

As the days go by, without knowing what the proceedings are becoming, Olivia feels helpless. "I am told to move to another region, but it is not for us to flee. My children have their friends here, I do not want to destroy what we have managed to rebuild." Justice ? "Prison is no use for people like that. If he goes and loses his job too, he will have nothing to do but think about his revenge, and the ultimate revenge, we know her ".

Olivia has not forgotten the gunshots he fired in the garage the day they separated. Nor the gendarmes who came to the scene and did not seize the weapon, "because he had a hunting license". Today, only an anti-approach bracelet seems to be able to reassure her. "At least I'll know he's not in my immediate surroundings. All women like me need a little bit of serenity, times when you feel good."

SAISI