The father of two girls who were defenestrated on Friday in Chambon-Feugerolles (Loire), one of whom died, was indicted for manslaughter and involuntary injuries and imprisoned on Sunday, AFP learned from the Saint-Étienne prosecutor's office.
The judicial investigation opened on Sunday morning against this 22-year-old man relates to criminal acts of involuntary homicide on the two-year-old girl who died and involuntary injuries with a total interruption of work (ITT) greater than three months for her four-year-old sister, said the public prosecutor of Saint-Étienne, David Charmatz.
The latter is hospitalized in pediatric intensive care at the Lyon-Bron University Hospital, in serious condition.
Findings on the spot and the neighborhood survey lead, as it stands, to favor the trail of an accidental fall of the two girls who may have wanted to grab their cat, climbed on the window sill and who also dropped.
The public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne, David Charmatz
The use of narcotics is also referred to in the introductory indictment, the drug addiction of the defendant, placed in pre-trial detention, being proven.
The investigations carried out did not make it possible to establish that the minors were deliberately projected by their father from a window of the family apartment located on the third floor, explained the prosecutor in a press release.
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Even if the person concerned does not provide any testimony on the course of the events, which he says he did not attend, explaining that he fell asleep and had a black hole, the findings on the spot and the neighborhood investigation lead, in the state, to favor the track of an accidental fall of the two girls who may have wanted to grab their cat, climbed on the window sill and who also fell
, ”continued the magistrate.
He added that “
the family had been known and supported by various medical and social services since 2020, with certain difficulties because the mother, currently residing in Ain, had moved several times
”.
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A measure of educational assistance at home, accepted by the father who had been taking care of his children alone for a few months, was to be implemented by the services of the county council.
Given the facts and the situation of the parents, the children's judge will be seized in educational assistance of the situation of the four-year-old child
, ”concluded the prosecutor.