The trial of Mounir Boutaa has just opened in Bordeaux. This man is accused of killing his wife Chahinez Daoud in 2021 after abusing and beating her, dousing her with petrol, and burning her alive.
He took responsibility for his actions in advance: “At least his honour would be cleared and in prison, he would be seen as a man, whereas now he would be seen as a faggot,” a friend of Chahinez explained Boutaa’s reasoning.
The death of the 31-year-old woman came after a long series of complaints and alerts that went unheeded by police and courts. For some, it is an ‘archetypal femicide.’ But few voices are willing to denounce this atrocious crime as the result of an immigration from alien culture that France—and Europe—is utterly unprepared for and incapable of handling.
French institutions, mirroring a broader issue across Western Europe, have embraced multiculturalism and mass migration while failing to ensure that migrants integrate and uphold Western European values—leading to this all too familiar tragedy.
The victim’s ordeal was long and painful. Chahinez Daoud met her Franco-Algerian husband in 2015 in Algeria. Nearly fifteen years her senior, he charmed her into marriage and brought her to France. Despite his ‘ideal son-in-law’ facade in Algeria, his true nature emerged in France: He insulted, raped, and beat her. Chahinez was forced to wear a veil, even in her own garden. Her husband shredded her papers, requiring her to renew them.
When she worked, he seized her earnings, and he saw nothing wrong with routinely searching her phone. Living under constant threat, she filed four police reports between 2018 and 2020. When questioned by police, her husband complained of “harassment.”
In 2020, during lockdown, Chahinez’s abusive situation worsened. After being strangled unconscious by her husband, she filed a complaint which landed him in prison. From his cell, he continued his harassment, prompting another complaint. Released months later with a no-contact order, he persuaded her to reconcile. The harassment and violence persisted.
In 2021, she filed yet another complaint and took refuge at her sister’s house. But the police officer who took her complaint had himself just been convicted of domestic violence, and did not forward the complaint—leaving her husband unprosecuted.
Boutaa justified his violence to his wife by accusing her of infidelity. She knew that her life was in danger: he had warned her several times that he would end up killing her one day and that she would return to Algeria in a coffin.
On May 4th, 2021, he took action. After watching his wife all day, he shot her twice in the legs as she left their home, hoping she would say “I’m sorry.” He then doused her with petrol—and lit a match.
The ruling by the court confirming the detention order paints the “archetypal portrait of a perpetrator of femicide taken to its climax,” according to Julien Plouton, the lawyer for Chahinez’s parents. The newspaper Le Monde goes so far as to describe the crime as “pure femicide,” if the use of such an adjective can have any meaning. But what does purity mean in such a case? If we accept that femicide is a murder perpetrated against a woman because she is a woman, it would be appropriate to ask ourselves honestly why Boutaa’s mistrust of women turned into hatred. The answer is unfortunately too simple for the journalists of Le Monde: A Franco-Algerian, of Islamic culture, Boutaa comes from a background that has turned contempt for women into a system and that sees women as inferior to men, subject to their every whim.
Chahinez’s murderer clearly suffers from psychological problems, but not to the extent that he was unaware of his actions. Even today, as he takes the stand, he continues to believe that he had good reasons for what he did.
Aside from these issues, his attitude towards his wife can be explained by his inability to tolerate her integration into French society. He cannot understand why she should have her own phone line, why she should work and earn money, why she should be able to go out and see her friends without having to report back to him.
During the 2022 presidential campaign, Éric Zemmour, the candidate of the Reconquête party, mentioned Chahinez as a typical example of this violence destroying French society, imposed by immigrants who cannot stand the rules of French life. On a TV set, confronted with a 21-year-old Muslim girl, also named Chahinez, who said she was “afraid of Zemmour,” the politician recalled that another young woman with the same first name had been burned alive because her husband could not bear the fact that she was a free French woman. That, Zemmour said, is what people should be afraid of.
At the opening of the trial, Rassemblement National MP Edwige Diaz recalled the implacable facts: “Chahinez, a mother of three in Mérignac, wanted to live ‘like a Frenchwoman.’ She was burnt alive by her husband. The trial that opens today must be that of these barbarians from another time.”
For the moment, it is not going down that road. For the feminists marching to the gates of the court, the ideal culprit must remain ‘the Man,’ with no other attributes. For the inventors of this nebulous concept, the “archetypal femicide” remains blindly disconnected from the religious and cultural context that make it possible.
Chahinez Murder: Unveiling Islamic Beliefs Behind French ‘Femicide’ Facade
The trial of Mounir Boutaa has just opened in Bordeaux. This man is accused of killing his wife Chahinez Daoud in 2021 after abusing and beating her, dousing her with petrol, and burning her alive.
He took responsibility for his actions in advance: “At least his honour would be cleared and in prison, he would be seen as a man, whereas now he would be seen as a faggot,” a friend of Chahinez explained Boutaa’s reasoning.
The death of the 31-year-old woman came after a long series of complaints and alerts that went unheeded by police and courts. For some, it is an ‘archetypal femicide.’ But few voices are willing to denounce this atrocious crime as the result of an immigration from alien culture that France—and Europe—is utterly unprepared for and incapable of handling.
French institutions, mirroring a broader issue across Western Europe, have embraced multiculturalism and mass migration while failing to ensure that migrants integrate and uphold Western European values—leading to this all too familiar tragedy.
The victim’s ordeal was long and painful. Chahinez Daoud met her Franco-Algerian husband in 2015 in Algeria. Nearly fifteen years her senior, he charmed her into marriage and brought her to France. Despite his ‘ideal son-in-law’ facade in Algeria, his true nature emerged in France: He insulted, raped, and beat her. Chahinez was forced to wear a veil, even in her own garden. Her husband shredded her papers, requiring her to renew them.
When she worked, he seized her earnings, and he saw nothing wrong with routinely searching her phone. Living under constant threat, she filed four police reports between 2018 and 2020. When questioned by police, her husband complained of “harassment.”
In 2020, during lockdown, Chahinez’s abusive situation worsened. After being strangled unconscious by her husband, she filed a complaint which landed him in prison. From his cell, he continued his harassment, prompting another complaint. Released months later with a no-contact order, he persuaded her to reconcile. The harassment and violence persisted.
In 2021, she filed yet another complaint and took refuge at her sister’s house. But the police officer who took her complaint had himself just been convicted of domestic violence, and did not forward the complaint—leaving her husband unprosecuted.
Boutaa justified his violence to his wife by accusing her of infidelity. She knew that her life was in danger: he had warned her several times that he would end up killing her one day and that she would return to Algeria in a coffin.
On May 4th, 2021, he took action. After watching his wife all day, he shot her twice in the legs as she left their home, hoping she would say “I’m sorry.” He then doused her with petrol—and lit a match.
The ruling by the court confirming the detention order paints the “archetypal portrait of a perpetrator of femicide taken to its climax,” according to Julien Plouton, the lawyer for Chahinez’s parents. The newspaper Le Monde goes so far as to describe the crime as “pure femicide,” if the use of such an adjective can have any meaning. But what does purity mean in such a case? If we accept that femicide is a murder perpetrated against a woman because she is a woman, it would be appropriate to ask ourselves honestly why Boutaa’s mistrust of women turned into hatred. The answer is unfortunately too simple for the journalists of Le Monde: A Franco-Algerian, of Islamic culture, Boutaa comes from a background that has turned contempt for women into a system and that sees women as inferior to men, subject to their every whim.
Chahinez’s murderer clearly suffers from psychological problems, but not to the extent that he was unaware of his actions. Even today, as he takes the stand, he continues to believe that he had good reasons for what he did.
Aside from these issues, his attitude towards his wife can be explained by his inability to tolerate her integration into French society. He cannot understand why she should have her own phone line, why she should work and earn money, why she should be able to go out and see her friends without having to report back to him.
During the 2022 presidential campaign, Éric Zemmour, the candidate of the Reconquête party, mentioned Chahinez as a typical example of this violence destroying French society, imposed by immigrants who cannot stand the rules of French life. On a TV set, confronted with a 21-year-old Muslim girl, also named Chahinez, who said she was “afraid of Zemmour,” the politician recalled that another young woman with the same first name had been burned alive because her husband could not bear the fact that she was a free French woman. That, Zemmour said, is what people should be afraid of.
At the opening of the trial, Rassemblement National MP Edwige Diaz recalled the implacable facts: “Chahinez, a mother of three in Mérignac, wanted to live ‘like a Frenchwoman.’ She was burnt alive by her husband. The trial that opens today must be that of these barbarians from another time.”
For the moment, it is not going down that road. For the feminists marching to the gates of the court, the ideal culprit must remain ‘the Man,’ with no other attributes. For the inventors of this nebulous concept, the “archetypal femicide” remains blindly disconnected from the religious and cultural context that make it possible.
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