Essonne: a woman kills her daughters of eight years and eight months with a knife before committing suicide

The police and firefighters could not intervene in time to avoid the tragedy.

On the night of Saturday 15 to Sunday 16 May in Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon (Essonne), a 30-year-old mother killed her two daughters, aged eight years and eight months, using a knife, before killing himself, according to

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The police and rescuers were called urgently by a friend of the woman who had received a message from the latter indicating her desire to commit suicide.

The apartment door was kicked in and, according to a police source, the units present then discovered the lifeless body of an eight-year-old girl in the hallway, followed by that of the mother and her baby. .

The three presented stab wounds, and according to ActuEssonne citing a police source, the youngest victim was slaughtered.

An investigation was quickly opened, led by the departmental security of Essonne.