a mother indicted for murder, suspected of having killed her two children

A mother admitted “having put an end to the life of his two children in a context of separation”. The parquet of Valenciennes talk about this case in a press release, published Tuesday, July 11. Four days earlier, the lifeless bodies of two children aged 5 and 10 were discovered at the family home in Wargnies-le-Grand (Nord). Indicted for murder, their mother, who had custody, explains that she gave them “drugs to put them to sleep” before drowning them in the bathtub.

Hospitalized after the fact, she seems “trying to end his life”specifies the parquet floor, which also evokes “a first psychiatric expertise” having “retained an alteration of discernment”. The mother of the family was placed in police custody on Saturday before an investigating judge decided on her indictment and her placement in pre-trial detention. A judicial investigation for premeditated assassination was opened on Monday.

In front of the investigators, this woman mentioned a “a decision of the family affairs judge of the judicial court of Avesnes-Sur-Helpe”. She did not wish to entrust the custody of her children to the father of the second, from whom she was in the process of separating.