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E. Frisullo / 20 Minutes

  • Thirteen-year-old twins were found dead at their mother's home on Saturday in the Somme.

  • A third child had to be hospitalized after being forced to swallow large quantities of medicine.

  • The 42-year-old mother was indicted for murder and attempted murder.

The mother of 13-year-old twins, found dead Saturday at their home near Amiens, was indicted Thursday evening for murder, the prosecution announced.

A judicial investigation was opened for these facts and for the assassination attempt on Théo, the eldest of 15 years.

During her custody, this 42-year-old woman "provided changing statements which augur psychiatric or psychological difficulties and which do not allow at this stage to communicate on the reasons for her passage to the criminal act", a said the Amiens prosecutor's office.

She was indeed "treated for depression for several years and presented other health problems", added the prosecution.

"Voluntary administration of large quantities of drugs"

"The hearings of the neighborhood, as well as of the family or friendly entourage, carried out since Saturday, indicate at this stage that nothing seemed to suggest such facts", continued the prosecution, which requested the placement in pre-trial detention of the suspicious.

The hearing of the eldest son, who had been hospitalized, had made it possible to establish a "voluntary administration of drugs in large quantities to the detriment of the three children during the evening or at night" on Saturday, the prosecutor said on Monday. Amiens, Alexandre de Bosschère, evoking a possible use of morphine.

Saturday, around 11 am, the mother had gone to neighbors in Poulainville, in the Somme, "in an abnormal and haggard state" declaring to have "done a big mistake".

The latter then went to his home and discovered in a room Theo, indisposed, then the inanimate twins.

They immediately alerted the emergency services.

A large number of drugs, some of which had been crushed, were found, especially near the bodies.

The father of the children, who had been living apart from his wife since 2018 - a divorce proceeding was underway - also went to his eldest son as soon as he was hospitalized and was heard.

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  • Twins

  • Assassination

  • Infanticide

  • Miscellaneous

  • Picardy