Cécile Bourgeon, sentenced Wednesday to 20 years imprisonment after the death of her daughter Fiona in 2013, is still hospitalized Friday, December 18 in Lyon after having ingested drugs but her life-threatening prognosis is not engaged, we learned from corroborating sources.
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According to the forensic doctor who examined her at the request of the prosecution, she should be able to be transferred over the next few days within the interregional secure hospital unit
", said the prosecution of Lyon.
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She should be out of the coma in the next 48 hours.
For the moment his condition is not compatible with a transfer to a prison hospital unit
, ”for his part indicated the lawyer for the young woman.
Cécile Bourgeon had been hospitalized Wednesday evening when she was to be transferred to Lyon-Corbas prison to serve her 20-year prison sentence.
After discussing Thursday "
taking Subutex
", a substitute for heroin, his lawyer Renaud Portejoie said Friday that his client would in fact have ingested Seresta, an anxiolytic from the benzodiazepine family, which can be used in the context of 'alcohol withdrawal.
Me Portejoie also indicates that an investigation is underway under the control of the Lyon prosecutor to find out how Cécile Bourgeon was able to escape the vigilance of her escorts.
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She was under their responsibility.
It is logical that they are heard to understand how she could have attempted suicide
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Wednesday evening, the Assize Court of the Rhône condemned the young woman on appeal alongside her ex-companion Berkane Makhlouf for having struck fatal blows on her daughter Fiona, who died in 2013. Berkane Makhlouf had been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment criminal.
When the verdict was announced, the two convicts had not had a visible reaction.
Cécile Bourgeon, who appeared free, was sentenced to 5 years in prison in 2016 at first instance and Berkane Makhlouf to 20 years in prison.
He has been imprisoned since 2013.
The couple, drug addicts at the time, had reported the disappearance of Fiona in May 2013, suggesting a kidnapping in a park in Clermont-Ferrand.
Four months later, Cécile Bourgeon finally confessed that her daughter had died after a fatal blow, according to her, by her ex-companion and that they had buried her near a lake.
The girl's body has never been found.