a mother runs out of a building with her two children, one of them dies

A woman threw herself out of the window from the 7th floor of a building in Malakoff (Hauts-de-Seine) on the night of Monday October 2 to Tuesday October 3, taking her two children with her, franceinfo learned from reliable sources.

The 12-year-old child died in the fall. The mother and the other child, aged 4, are hospitalized as an absolute emergency.

The Nanterre public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into murder and attempted murder. She was entrusted to the Hauts-de-Seine judicial police.