The court of Nîmes (illustration).
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N. Bonzom / Maxele Presse
A woman, accused of having killed her 7-year-old son with a knife in May 2017 in Sommières (Gard), was declared criminally irresponsible by the investigating chamber of the Nîmes court of appeal.
The fifty-year-old was hospitalized automatically and is now prohibited from meeting members of her family, including her eldest son, and from appearing in Gard and Hérault for twenty years.
The decision of criminal irresponsibility rendered Thursday is in accordance with psychiatric expertise.
Only one doctor, out of the five solicited in this affair, concluded that there was an “alteration of discernment” which could have led to a judgment at the assizes.
The other four experts noted an “abolition of discernment” leading to penal irresponsibility not allowing judicial sanction.
An "incomprehensible" speech
The Advocate General had requested criminal irresponsibility at a hearing on January 27.
“It is the trial of an infanticide mother who committed the unspeakable.
The crime of crimes ”, underlined the representative of the general prosecutor's office.
“That night I moved at three in the morning.
The speech of this lady, this mother of a family was incomprehensible, ”he added.
"We do not condemn madmen in a civilized society", pleaded the mother's lawyer, Philippe Expert.
On May 23, 2017, around 2 a.m., the emergency services, warned by a relative of the mother, had discovered in this woman's apartment little Mathéo, lying on his bed, lifeless and bleeding.
They could only see the death of the child.
Placed in police custody by the gendarmes, the woman could not provide a reason for her action and had been inconsistent in her words.
She was quickly hospitalized automatically.
" I can not explain "
"The autopsy proved that the little boy had died of a throat cut and a massive hemorrhage", recalled the president of the court of appeal.
“I can't explain why I killed Mathéo.
I had no reason to do it, "said the mother suffering from psychiatric problems" old and known "according to a psychiatrist.
The woman, diagnosed with bipolar for several years, no longer took her treatment, regularly evoked the end of the world, saw extraterrestrials or "balls of light".
The day before the tragedy, she had not responded to a medical summons during which she was to receive an injection of neuroleptics.
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