“
I am responsible for my actions
”, launched Monday March 7 a father tried before the assizes of the Hérault for having killed his partner and his baby in 2019 then considered murdering his two sons and committing suicide before d give it up.
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Charles-Olivier Adde, 43, arrived with a pale complexion and trembling hands at the start of his trial, which is due to last until Wednesday.
The man had been living for several years with his partner and their three children, two sons aged seven and 11, one of whom is diabetic, and a daughter of almost 20 months, in the village of Rives (Hérault), on the Larzac plateau, when he killed his partner and baby in July 2019.
Their 19-month-old child placed
Production manager in a catering company, he worked a lot, while the mother took care of the children and taught them at home.
The family lived "
in near self-sufficiency
", according to the investigators, and the couple had chosen not to vaccinate their children.
During an emergency hospitalization of their daughter aged a little over 19 months for a urinary tract infection, the medical staff had noted that the child was undernourished, still breastfed, and had administered a naso-nasal catheter to her. gastric.
There followed a heated dialogue between the mother of the family and the medical profession, told the bar the gendarmes and the grandmother of the children.
Three months later, following the various follow-ups carried out by the social services, the placement of the child was ordered.
The couple had been notified by phone.
"
This phone call made us switch to committing the irrational
," explained the accused, sobs in his voice.
“
My wife had lost all her means.
During this last phone call, I understood that there was no longer any escape
, ”he explained.
"
The safety of this child was no longer guaranteed at home since she was losing weight
", explained Monday Isabelle Stellbrinks, director of the Maison des solidarités who admitted not having met the family before deciding "
collectively
of placement.
To escape the situation, the couple had considered fleeing to New Zealand.
But for lack of a passport, the mother had proposed the project of a collective suicide.
"Moment of hesitation"
On July 17, while the two eldest sons are on vacation in Brittany with their grandmother, the father who assured during his police custody that the solution of collective suicide had been decided by mutual agreement with the mother, kills the latter with four bullets, then fires three more at their sleeping daughter, in the cellar of the family home.
In the computer, a farewell letter written by the mother was found.
“
I had this moment of hesitation.
I was crying.
We hugged with my wife.
We talked again, we said we had to do it.
Then afterwards, it's blurry, I was no longer there, no longer present
, ”said, looking down, the accused in the box.
Leaving to pick up his two sons in Brittany to complete the macabre project, the father had finally given up going all the way and called his mother who then warned the gendarmes.
The two sons now live with their paternal grandmother in Brittany, one is in CM2, the other in 3rd.
“
When I picked up the children, they no longer knew how to read or write, but we got out of it, because in life, you have to get out of it
”, testified the grandmother, detailing the excessive love of his son for his wife whom he put "
on a pedestal
".
