The families of the two young victims killed by Jean-Claude Nsengumukiza in Place de la Pucelle in Rouen in 2015 are demanding that the state be held accountable. The perpetrator, who was sentenced to the maximum penalty, was a serial offender who was obliged to leave French territory (OQTF).
The double murder of 24-year-old Élise Fauvel and 31-year-old Julien Tesquet in 2015 in the middle of downtown Rouen caused a shock in people’s minds in more ways than one. After the shock, the mourning and the trial, the families have still not been able to get to grips with this terrible case, which had put the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of the Interior on the scene. The families have filed a case against the state for misconduct before the Administrative Court.
(…) Before the administrative court in Rouen on Thursday June 30, 2022, the proceedings initiated by the families are thus directed against the state, after an inspection commission of the Ministry of Justice presented its findings in 2016. Jean-Claude Nsengumukiza had already been convicted of rape by the Rouen jury courts in 2011 and released in 2015, barely a month before the double murder. At that time, he was obliged to leave French territory (OQTF).
“He was thus released on November 17, 2015, without any escort or deportation measures,” recalls the rapporteur before the Administrative Court. The question that the administrative court must answer is that of the state’s responsibility, especially since “a few weeks before the crime, the perpetrator was subjected to a police check in the Rue de la République and summoned, but never appeared before the authorities”, he continues.
On December 20, 2015, the partially naked bodies of Julien Tesquet, a 31-year-old nurse, and his 24-year-old girlfriend Élise Fauvel, a director’s assistant, were discovered in the young woman’s flat, just a few steps from the Place du Vieux-Marché in Rouen. Covered with a bed sheet, they were lying on the floor and showed a great many bruises. The couple had been strangled. The young woman, from Dieppe, was raped. The two victims met their tormentor while leaving a bar and Jean-Claude Nsengumukiza then allegedly offered to accompany the young woman home. He was arrested ten days after the crime by the Service régional de police judiciaire (SRPJ) in Rouen based on CCTV footage and DNA traces.Paris-Normandie