For having attempted suicide with her 5-year-old son driving her car, a 45-year-old mother was sentenced on Monday February 7 at the Assizes of Toulouse to ten years in prison.
Read alsoSuicides: the national number 3114 received 34,000 calls in four months
The child and his mother were seriously injured on December 1, 2019 in Huos, a village at the foot of the Pyrenees.
Their chances of survival were slim.
She had installed the child in the front seat, deactivated the airbag, before hitting a tree at an estimated speed of 77 km / h.
Before the Assize Court of Haute-Garonne, this 45-year-old laboratory employee, in detention for 26 months, was tried for attempted murder, but the premeditation was ultimately not accepted.
"
Don't talk to us about crime!"
She wanted to kill herself
,” pleaded her lawyer Ravyn Issa.
"
Her psychic construction was so special that she did not know how to realize that her son was a person in his own right
", abounds Apollinaire Legros-Gimbert,
“Depressed, introverted, sad”
Read alsoAn American mother and son tried in Paris for incredible assassination attempts on the French father
"
We can't live without you, the fat one and your son say goodbye to you
," she wrote in an SMS to her ex-companion, before the suicide attempt.
According to the experts in charge of establishing her psychological profile, this “
depressed, introverted, sad
” woman was devastated by the separation and had suffered from “
harassment because of her overweight
”.
The lawyer for the child's father, Carbon de Sèze, points out that the accused has not been found criminally irresponsible and that the 5-year-old boy, who bears serious sequelae three years after the shock, "
has been a victim of his mother
. "
We do not escape by subterfuge from the real responsibility that Christelle B. has, thank God, it is only qualified as an attempt (of murder), but it is not because of the mother that the accident did not cause the death of this child
,” he added. Advocate General Marie Régnier-Pellat had requested eight to ten years of criminal imprisonment and a socio-judicial follow-up of 10 years. Me Ravyn Issa, who described her client as "
devastated
" after the verdict, said she did not rule out appealing.
