Their first names remain engraved in the collective memory in Guadeloupe and Saint-Martin. The first names of victims of femicide. Women, often young, fallen under the blows of an ex-companion or a bad encounter. Dramas that shocked public opinion.
Rosine, Emilie, Sandra, Wendy or Gerty, here are some first names that resonate in Guadeloupe or Saint-Martin as martyrs for “violence against women”. Because in these departments, as in the rest of the national territory, feminicides follow one another and are similar, flourishing most of the time on the soil of patriarchy.
These women, most of whom are in the prime of their lives, fall victim to the blows of an ex like Rosine, 28 years old, murdered last May by her former boyfriend in Capesterre Belle-Eau, with a gunshot, or even Emilie Godard coldly shot dead by her ex-partner at her home in Pointe-à-Pitre in front of her 5-year-old daughter, it was in April 2022.
A horrible year for overseas women with 13 feminicides recorded that year across all overseas territories.
These dramas do not only play out in the marital or family context. In 2016, Guadeloupe and particularly Saint-Martin were shocked following the murder of Wendy Montulet, this young 21-year-old Belgian tourist who, while jogging on this Saturday morning of July 9, accidentally fell into Baie Nettle on his executioner, a young man of 21 who confessed to the crime a week later.
The bad encounter… Wendy and Gerty also paid with their lives. No one forgets these two cases in Guadeloupe because they constitute two symbols of this scourge.
Sandra Martial, a young Guadeloupean recently promoted to executive in a local banking establishment, is brutally murdered by two villainous individuals.
As for the story of Gerty David, it alone embodies all the horror that our societies can produce. This young 37-year-old Gourbeyrian was kidnapped, kidnapped, raped and then brutally killed by 3 individuals. It was August 2006.
Rosine, Emilie, Sandra, Wendy, Gerty and all the others, all these women murdered because of their status as women in a patriarchal society.
