The parents of an infant, brain dead after a road accident Monday in the Pas-de-Calais where the mother is suspected of driving while intoxicated, were arrested Wednesday afternoon , we learned from a judicial source.
"Drunk" at the time of their arrest
The security forces arrested them, without rebelling, on public roads in Outreau "intoxicated" and placed in custody at 14 hours, according to the prosecution of Boulogne-sur-Mer .
The 34-year-old mother was driving the car with her 35-year-old companion and three children on board, who entered the underpass of a railway bridge on Monday night around 8 pm at Samer. Their 18-month-old daughter was heliported in a very serious condition at the CHU Lille, where she was brain dead Wednesday afternoon, said the prosecutor.
Their other two children will be placed
The parents in shock and their two children aged 3 and 4 had been admitted to the hospital in Boulogne, which the couple left hurriedly in the night from Monday to Tuesday. They were since sought after.
The results of the blood tests carried out after the accident are not yet known, but the prosecutor's office is "almost certain" that they will prove positive to alcohol. According to the same source, the mother was sentenced in 2011 for armed robbery and was sentenced for narcotics use. In the regional newspaper La Voix du Nord , the mother of the driver had urged the couple, from Carly, to surrender. Their two children will be placed.