Forty-eight hours after the tragedy, the murderous aunt should be referred this Saturday afternoon to the Versailles courthouse before being indicted for intentional homicide and attempted homicide on a 15-year-old minor.
This 31-year-old woman is suspected of having, during the night of December 24 to 25 in Limay (Yvelines), stabbed her nephew, aged 10, to death before injuring her 4-year-old niece and her own son. months and a half.
During the hours spent in police custody, this territorial agent who works in a kindergarten in Limay, without any history, made a full confession before explaining her gesture by postpartum depression following her pregnancy and childbirth.
This terrible story begins with an ordinary Christmas evening with the family.
New Years Eve is organized with the grandparents in this residence on rue Georges-Danton.
"Everyone is there, except the mother of the two little ones, who follows a course in a nursing school", specifies a source close to the case.
When the party is over, the children stay to sleep with their grandparents with their aunt.
The father of the children returns home and their uncle joins his brand new pavilion in Mantes-la-Jolie, where the family is from.
"These are good people, quiet, hardworking, who have never made noise", testify residents of this neighboring town.
Around 3:30 a.m., the aunt wakes up the two children and leads them into the small private garden of the residence before stabbing them, armed with a knife and a cutter.
She then goes to look for her baby, whom she also beatings but all the wounds found on the infant's body are superficial.
Local residents warn firefighters and police.
"The whole family is in shock"
The uncle, panicked, tries a desperate cardiac massage as evidenced by distressing videos taken by residents.
He's screaming for the fire department to be called.
Arrived quickly on the scene, the emergency services can unfortunately do nothing for the little boy who dies from a fatal hemorrhage.
The murder weapon is found in the thickets.
The other two children are transported to hospitals and their state of health is stable.
"The whole family is in shock," adds another source.
The municipality indicates that it has set up a crisis unit allowing them to take charge of them and to temporarily relocate them.
It was here shortly after 3 a.m. that the children were taken by their aunt.
LP / Mehdi Gherdane
The aunt, who suffers from a laceration on her forearms, is taken to hospital before being transferred to the premises of the departmental security, responsible for carrying out the investigations.
The doctor considers that his state of mental health is compatible with the placement in police custody.
"In front of the first responders, she said she was" possessed by the devil "but the reality is more complex and moreover this notion does not come back in the rest of her statements", underlines a source close to the case.
"From her childbirth, everything collapsed"
In fact, this young woman who was loving with her nephew and niece and to whom she gave gifts, suffered from severe depression since her own pregnancy.
Her husband, a communications engineer, with whom she united in 2019, explains that she literally "went crazy".
"She gave birth last November 14 and from there everything collapsed," he explained to the police.
His wife, who had already had a bad pregnancy during confinement, was very tired and sank into postnatal depression.
Exhausted, she even returned to live with her parents in Limay.
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During the hearings, the young woman has trouble explaining her gesture, claiming to have "gone wrong".
"I can't believe it," she assured investigators.
Yet I love my family.
All this is because of stress ”.
