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At the Assizes of Angers, the unthinkable infanticide: "I took Vanille's life so that it wouldn't be taken from me"

2023-02-05T15:13:12.381Z


STORY – In 2020, one-year-old Vanille was found dead despite the kidnapping alert being triggered. His mother is on trial for his murder from Monday.


On February 7, 2020, Vanille should have celebrated its first candle.

Raised by an unstable single mother, she was initially a fearful infant.

For the first few months, she didn't ask for food, avoided the gaze of adults, without tears or cries.

But in the arms of Dominique M., a family assistant who gave her occasional visits that had become more and more regular, the little girl had found her smile again.

“She had transformed.

She was a child who had become naughty, curious about her environment, who loved life

, ”says

Figaro

Me Mathilde Livenais, representing the foster father.

It was at the bottom of a clothing container, south of Angers, that his body was found on February 9, 2020. His livid body was lying in a carefully closed garbage bag.

The head had previously been completely covered with brown adhesive tape, over seven or eight turns, with a “

more significant presence of tape at the level of the eyes and the mouth of the child

”, notes the investigation report.

Nathalie S., the mother of the child, must answer for murder by ascending before the Assize Court of Maine-et-Loire, three years after the birth of her daughter, and two years after her death.

A pink hat and a shoe

The alert was launched at 7:50 p.m. by a manager of the Angevin family center where Nathalie S...

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Source: lefigaro

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