The trial of a 69-year-old woman accused of having, in 2017, suffocated her 84-year-old mother with a pillow, whom she cared for at home in Dorans (Territoire-de-Belfort), began on Monday, October 11. in front of the Vesoul Assize Court.
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"
I couldn't take it anymore, for all these years ...
", declared at the opening of the hearing this little woman, wearing a blond bob, who had been taking care for 20 years of a mother described by those close to him as “
difficult
”, even “
tyrannical
” with his daughter. On the morning of Sunday April 16, 2017 in Dorans, a small town of 700 inhabitants near Belfort, the firefighters entered Martine Grandjean's house and discovered her mother, Yvonne Blattner, lying on a bed, a plastic bag in her mouth and a pillow on her head.
Martine Grandjean, who herself gave the alert by calling her brother, admits having killed her mother.
The old lady's body had scratches on her hands, indicating that she had struggled.
"
I did not want to kill her, I was not myself
", stammered before the jurors the sixty-year-old for whom an expert psychiatrist concluded to the abolition of discernment at the time of the facts.
The accused looked after her mother by going to her home three to four times a week.
Three days before the events, she had welcomed her at her home, in Dorans, after hospitalization.
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Martine Grandjean, who appears free after being placed under judicial supervision, is tried for “
murder on the ascendant
” and faces life imprisonment.
His lawyers Me Patrick Uzan and Alain Dreyfus-Schmidt will plead acquittal.
The other children of the victim did not become a civil party.
The Assize Court of Haute-Saône and Territoire de Belfort will deliver its verdict on Tuesday.
