24 hours after the discovery of the body of an 11-year-old boy on the banks of the Huveaune in Marseille, the child’s mother admitted to having killed him, the Marseille prosecutor said in a statement on Sunday evening. . She has “hit his son in the apartment first, then took him into the ‘ravine’ and killed him on the spot with a knife taken from the kitchen.” Stab wounds were found on the child’s body. The mother then left her son’s body behind. She is “came back shortly after to get rid of things.”
His custody is extended this Sunday evening, she will be referred during the day of Monday for an opening of judicial information on the count of murder of a 15-year-old minor.
Elements of the investigation confirm the version of the mother
The elements collected during the investigation by the judicial police at his home, along the banks of the Huveaune, and the video surveillance “corroborated the statements of the mother, in particular on the fact that the child died on Friday afternoon, even before the report of his disappearance”explained the prosecutor.
The body of the child discovered Saturday noon
His father and uncle found the body of the autistic child around 1 p.m. and traces of blood had been reported on the way where he was discovered. The body was found down a steep slope overlooking the water, in tall grass and brush. The family explains that they first found the child’s jacket this Saturday, October 29 around 8:30 a.m.