In Limay (Yvelines), in a children's playground, on the night of December 25, a 31-year-old woman stabbed her 10-year-old nephew to death and seriously injured her 4-year-old niece -
Clara WRIGHT / AFP
The woman who stabbed her nephew to death and tried to kill her niece and her infant in Limay (Yvelines) on Christmas night, admitted the facts and explained that she was suffering from post-natal depression, the prosecution explained on Saturday of Versailles.
During her custody, "she explained very precisely the facts, which she recognized, explaining that she had a very serious post-partum depression after the birth of her baby" last November, said the prosecution.
This 31-year-old woman, from Mantes-La-Jolie, a town bordering Limay, must be brought to justice on Saturday for her indictment.
A gentle and attentive woman
"That evening, she explains having completely lost her footing", without "any trigger" identified during the Christmas dinner.
"He is someone described by those close to him as particularly gentle and attentive with children," who used to spoil his nephew and niece.
She has been working for ten years in a nursery school.
Since giving birth, she shared "a very great fatigue to those close to her".
A nighttime drama
Thursday evening, for Christmas, she had dinner with her sister and her brothers, as well as her husband, at her parents' place, in a public housing building near the station of the small town of Limay, in the western suburbs of Paris.
Three children were also present: her 10-year-old nephew, her 4-year-old niece and her baby.
At the end of the dinner, her husband returns home alone.
"Married for more than a year, they had a life project: a child, a new house ...", noted the prosecution.
One of his brothers also returns, leaving his two children to sleep there.
But during the night, the woman took her nephew and niece to the playground behind the building, "armed with a knife and a cutter", injuring them several times.
Certain wounds attest to "great violence, a form of persistence".
Then she went to look for her infant in the apartment, which she "pricked with the point of a knife".
The autopsy will take place on Monday
"She did not completely commit her irreparable gesture towards her, but it was her intention," according to the prosecution, which is investigating intentional homicide on a minor under 15 and double attempted homicide on minors.
The alert was given around 3:15 am by neighbors and then by the grandmother.
Despite the intervention of the emergency services, the boy died on the spot.
His autopsy will take place on Monday.
The girl, seriously injured, is still in the hospital.
Its vital prognosis is not engaged.
The infant was also taken care of.
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