The Belgian Geneviève Lhermitte, sentenced in 2008 to life imprisonment for
having slit the throats of her five children
, died by euthanasia in a hospital in the Wallonia region, south of the country, according to local press reports on Thursday.
Lhermitte,
56,
died at the Léonard de Vinci hospital in Montigny-le-Tilleul by euthanasia, according to the
Sudinfo
newspaper , an end that has not yet been confirmed by those close to her, while the newspaper
Le Soir
points out that the woman he had requested and obtained "euthanasia for
hopeless psychological suffering
".
He murders her along with her husband and their five children.
On February 28, 2007, Lhermitte
killed her five children
(14-year-old Yasmine, 11-year-old Nora, 9-year-old Myriam, 7-year-old Mina and 3-year-old Medhi) one after the other in their respective bedrooms.
After slitting the boys' throats with a knife, Lhermitte
tried unsuccessfully to take his own life
, phoned emergency services and left two handwritten notes on his doorstep with the message "call the police."
The court sentenced her in December 2008 to life imprisonment.
The correctional court of Nivelles, a town located south of Brussels, sentenced
the mother to
life imprisonment in December 2008, after the jury found her responsible for her actions and guilty of premeditated murder.
The case shocked Belgian public opinion, which promptly followed the development of the investigation and the trial.
He was responsible for his actions
Geneviève Lhermitte and her husband, the Moroccan Bouchaib Mokadem, did not seem to have any major problems, although, according to some testimonies collected by the prosecution, she felt
completely socially isolated.
Mokadem, employed in the pharmaceutical sector, was on a business trip at the time of the events.
Until the very day of the trial, the psychiatrists who examined Lhermitte held him
responsible for his actions
, despite the fact that he was in a state of acute anxiety and depression when he murdered his children.
The woman remarried in prison with this man, a former prisoner.
But during the trial, a letter appeared that Lhermitte had written to his psychologist the day before the events and in which he revealed his plans to commit suicide and take his children in his death.
A second analysis carried out after that revelation indicated that the woman could not be held responsible for her actions and recommended
admitting her to a psychiatric clinic
.
But the jury found against those recommendations and found Lhermitte guilty of premeditated murder.
EFE Agency.
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