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Mother and daughter dead in the Marne: possible infanticide followed by suicide

2022-04-06T17:26:20.758Z


The mother and her daughter were discovered dead by bullets on Monday afternoon in a caravan in Loisy-sur-Marne. The father had been discovered “squatting in a corner of the caravan”.


The public prosecutor of Reims announced on Wednesday April 6 to lift the police custody for murder of the man suspected of having killed his partner and his daughter on Monday in the Marne, the hypothesis of a murder of the child by his mother, followed by suicide, now being considered.

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"

I consider as it stands (...) that I do not have enough information to consider presenting (this man) before an investigating magistrate and at this stage request his indictment for homicide(s)

" , explained prosecutor Matthieu Bourrette during a press conference.

"

Three investigative hypotheses can be retained at this stage

", he detailed: the murder of the child by his mother followed by her suicide, the double murder committed by the father, and, "

hypothesis the weakest of the three

”, the murder of the child by its mother followed by the murder of the mother by the father.

The man, born in 1974, "

at the end of his police custody for homicide

", was returned to police custody, this time on the charge of kidnapping in an organized gang.

The parents are indeed suspected of having kidnapped their nine-year-old daughter in February, while, placed with the Childhood Social Assistance, she was having lunch with an educator.

The prosecutor described the couple, with no criminal record, as "

marginal, socially very disadvantaged

", belonging to the community of travelers.

“Coherent and lucid”

The mother, also born in 1974, and her daughter were found dead by bullets on Monday afternoon in a caravan in Loisy-sur-Marne, as police launched an operation after locating the family.

About fifteen men in total (…) were approaching the caravan in a column of assault

”, when they heard two shots, reported the prosecutor.

The father had been discovered “

crouching in a corner of the caravan

”.

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Speaking "

coherently and lucidly

" in police custody, he said that realizing the police intervention, his wife had shot their daughter in the temple before turning the gun on her.

His wife "

told him that there was no question of being apprehended alive, nor that their daughter could be placed again

", the parents suspecting "

that she could have been raped while she was placed

", explained the prosecutor.

Source: lefigaro

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