‘People didn’t listen’: Julie Douib’s killing sparks fight against femicide in France

She told police 10 times her ex-partner would kill her and he did - one of 146 such deaths in France that year

Julie Douib told many people she thought her ex-partner would kill her. She told her family. She reported him to the police on 10 occasions. She even told them he had a gun and she was afraid he would use it, but they said they could not do anything unless he pointed it at her.

So it should have been little surprise when he did. Or that Julie's last words as she lay dying of gunshot wounds on the balcony of her home in L'Ile-Rousse, Corsica, were, according to the neighbour who held her hand: He's killed me."