Jacqueline Sauvage, who highlighted domestic violence in France, dead at 72

Jacqueline Sauvage, a French woman was pardoned by the French president after killing her abusive husband. Photo: AFP

She had fired three bullets into her husband Norbert Marot's back a day after their son hanged himself in 2012, and her case became a rallying cause for feminists. According to the local daily La Republique du Centre, which first broke the news, she died on July 23 at her home in La Selle-sur-le-Bied in the Loiret department south of Paris, the same village where she killed her husband."Jacqueline Sauvage, through her story and case, helped to raise awareness of the existence of women who were battered for years behind closed doors within the family amid the silence of society," she said.

Feminist groups, celebrities and politicians had rallied behind Sauvage, and a petition gathered nearly 436,000 signatures.

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