Her name is Rebecca Cheptegei. This marathon runner of the 2024 Olympic Games was burned alive by her partner. Hospitalized in Kenya, her situation testifies to the overwhelming reality of femicides and attempted femicides in a country that neglects its victims.
Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, is a professional Ugandan athlete. A few weeks after her sporting exploits, this marathon runner of the 2024 Olympic Games now finds herself between life and death. The reason? An attempted femicide. Her partner poured gasoline on her. Before setting her on fire.
Femicide is the act of attacking a woman because she is a woman. A particularly sinister gender-based violence that prompts us to recall that in France, for example, the feminist collective Nous Toutes has counted 88 femicides since the beginning of the year. The events reported here took place in Kenya. The partner of the Ugandan long-distance runner broke into her home before burning her alive.
Rebecca Cheptegei was with her children.
“Dickson spilled gasoline…”: the reality of an attempted femicide in a country where there are hundreds
Dickson, the author of the femicide in question, “poured gasoline on Rebecca before setting the fireu”, reports a report from the Kenyan authorities reported by Le Parisien. The newspaper also specifies that the sportswoman was admitted to hospital. And that she had 75% burns.
Little more is known about the situation of his children today.
In Kenya, there were no fewer than 725 femicides in 2022, according to a report from the United Nations Office reported by Le Monde. Many NGOs consider…
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