Le Figaro Bordeaux
A renewal of identity documents almost turned tragic on Tuesday in Cenon (Gironde).
While a woman was carrying out administrative procedures in the town hall of the La Morlette district, an individual appeared and passed a rope around the neck of her four-month-old baby and violently pulled her by the foot, according to a source. policewoman at
Figaro
.
The individual was subdued by staff before they had time to tighten the rope around the infant's neck.
Unknown to the judicial services, the perpetrator, Mohammed F., is a 34-year-old Algerian, and would be in an irregular situation.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the mother of the child, aged 40, was in a relationship with this man for two years and would have left him a month before the birth of their child.
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The infant's father said "
he wanted to kill the baby before ending his life"
.
According to his declarations, this Algerian would have been “
unhappy not to be able to benefit from a possible administrative regularization linked to the birth of the child
”.
He was taken into custody.
The infant was taken to hospital for tests.
The mother was not injured.
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