A “
mean
”, “
humiliating
”, even “
tyrannical
”
mother
.
A 69-year-old woman accused of having, in 2017, suffocated her 84-year-old mother with a pillow with a pillow, in Dorans (Territoire-de-Belfort) has been appearing at the Assizes de Vesoul since Monday.
During the first day of the hearing, her relatives described a woman "
under the influence
".
She faces life imprisonment.
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This morning of Sunday April 16, 2017 in Dorans, a town of 700 inhabitants near Belfort, the firefighters were called to Martine Grandjean's home.
When they arrive, they discover her mother, Yvonne Blattner, lying on a bed, a plastic bag in her mouth and a pillow on her head.
The old lady's body shows scratches on her hands, indicating that she has struggled.
The first name of a previous stillborn child
The accused, who herself gave the alert by calling her sister-in-law, admits having killed her. She took care of her mother who had given her the first name of a previous child, stillborn, by coming to her house almost daily. Three days before the events, she received her at her home, after returning from hospitalization. The devoted sixty-year-old, who took care of her mother on her own and hid her distress from those close to her, “broke
down
” when the old lady told her that she did not want to stay at home.
At the bar Monday, Martine Grandjean, a little woman wearing a blond bob, expressed her regrets: "
I did not want to kill her, I was not myself
", she stammered to the opening of the debates.
Trembling, she returned in detail to her gesture:
“I said, 'But where do you want me to put you? The harm you are doing to me, the harm you are doing to me ... 'And there I no longer know, I took what I had on hand, I put it on it and I said:' Shut up -you.' And There you go."
"
I was trying to have his love
"
An expert psychiatrist concluded that Martine Grandjean's judgment was impaired at the time of the events.
According to another expert psychologist, the sexagenarian was “
in extreme psychological distress, she was exhausted.
"
"
I could not take it any longer, for all these years,
she admitted during her interrogation," report our colleagues from France Bleu.
I was like emptied, I was no longer me.
All my life, I devoted it to her (...) I tried to have her love.
"
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For her brother, "she
is a very good person, she adored her mother, she did everything for her
". But since the age of 14, "
she was in his grip
", she was "
his slave
". Their mother was "
abusive
", "
liked to hurt
" and "
always put down
" her children, he told the bar. Like his other sister, he did not become a civil party, supporting the accused.
Martine Grandjean, who appears free, is tried for "
murder on the ascendant
" and faces life imprisonment.
His lawyers Me Patrick Uzan and Alain Dreyfus-Schmidt will plead acquittal, considering that “
his criminal liability was abolished.
This Tuesday is devoted to defense pleadings, then to requisitions.
The verdict is expected by the end of the day.
