Hondelatte Raconte : L'affaire de Saint Martin d’Ablois (récit intégral)

This transcript is a long-form crime story from Europe 1’s Hondelatte Raconte, centered on the murder of Dafina Ponovic and the investigation that followed. The setup is immediate and vivid: in November 2012, emergency services are called to an apartment in Bobigny by Patrice Dupuit, who says his wife has fainted. Responders quickly notice cordons around her neck, signs of strangulation, pulled-out hair, blood traces, and no evidence of a straightforward burglary. What first looks like a domestic emergency becomes a homicide investigation. The narrative then follows police inference and forensics. Patrice Dupuit, who appears devastated, says he left for work, returned later, and found Dafina unconscious. His alibi checks out, which removes him as the killer despite the suspicious scene. …

1. This is a true-crime narrative about jealousy, control, and a planned assault that ended in murder.
2. The investigation initially looked like a possible burglary or accidental death, but forensics and phone data redirected it toward a coordinated plot.
3. Patrice Dupuit’s alibi held, which shifted suspicion away from the grieving partner and toward his ex-partner, Fatia Mogdad.
4. Fatia’s phone records, her daughter’s involvement, and Pascal Herman’s testimony became the key evidentiary pillars.
5. The appellate prosecutor argues the motive was not ordinary passion but a "crime d'honneur" rooted in possessiveness and humiliation.
6. The story ends with a conviction affirmed on appeal and a prosecutorial defense of the legal characterization of the case.

• The early police intuition that the crime was committed by a woman is presented as persuasive, but it is more a profiling instinct than hard proof.
• The prosecution’s distinction between a crime passionnel and a crime d'honneur is interpretive and somewhat subjective.
• Pascal Herman’s testimony is partly self-incriminating and partly self-exculpatory, so his exact role remains dependent on credibility judgments.
• The transcript presents Fatia as the clear mastermind, but some of that characterization comes from courtroom narrative rather than independently verifiable facts.
• The claim that the daughter and mother were both at the scene at the decisive moment relies on phone-borne data and testimony, not direct observation.