ILE-ROUSSE, Corsica — Julie Douib tried to do everything right. She left her abusive partner. She reported his violence to the police at least a dozen times. After he forced her to give up custody of their two children for the weekend, she told the police that he had a license for a gun and that she was afraid he would shoot her.

“Madame, I am sorry,’’ the officer replied, according to Ms. Douib’s father, ‘‘but his license cannot be taken away unless he points the gun at you.”

He did so 48 hours later, and fired twice, hitting Ms. Douib, 34, in her chest and arms. “He killed me,” she said with her last breath, said Maryse Santini, the downstairs neighbor who found her.

Ms. Douib’s death in March crystallized the issues of domestic violence and the difficulties that women in France face in getting the authorities to take their fears and complaints seriously, and to act on them.