On June 8, 2023, Marylin, 42, finds that the weather is fine.
Like every Thursday, this childminder takes care of three young children.
She has been doing this job for 13 years.
She loves contact with children more than anything.
The rest of the time, Marylin is a reservist chief brigadier in the gendarmerie.
Marylin offers to take the three little blond heads to the beach.
The siblings jump for joy.
The young woman places the three children in the cargo bike, helmets them, straps them in, then she gets on her bicycle.
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But she has barely gone a few kilometers when the weather suddenly changes: a huge cloud comes between Marylin and the sun.
“I tell the children that we are going to go to the square until the sun stops sulking
,” Marylin remembers from Le
Figaro
.
As the forty-year-old walks onto the Pâquier esplanade and heads towards a playground in a park located on the shores of Lake Annecy, she hears a scream.
A cry of horror.
A woman's cry.
Then nothing.
“No panic, no one is running”
.
Nothing.
The silence.
“We don't expect this kind of cry in the middle of summer, in a children's square in Annecy
,” whispers the childminder.
Maryline does not think and moves forward into the park,
“to understand what is happening”
.
She then sees a man, a knife in his hand, his arm raised above a person's head.
Maryline doesn't know it yet, but it's Abdelmasih H., a 31-year-old Syrian immigrant who lived on the streets of Annecy.
The latter had submitted an asylum application to Ofpra (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons) on November 28, 2022 under the normal procedure, which was refused by the Office…
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