A mother was indicted at the weekend for "aggravated neglect" following the troubled death of her 15-year-old son in a city of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), said the prosecution.

The investigation is entrusted to the territorial security.

The body of the teenager, whose circumstances and time of death are unclear at this stage, was discovered on Tuesday morning in the family apartment when help was called by his mother for an alleged illness During the night.

The behavior of the woman raising questions about her mental health, she was taken into custody by the police in the process.

After 48 hours of interrogation, an investigating judge from Bobigny indicted her on the night of Thursday to Friday on the count of aggravated neglect of a person unable to protect himself.

The woman has been placed in pre-trial detention and a psychiatric expertise should be carried out to examine her personality.

  • Bobigny

  • Teenager

  • Investigation

  • Paris

  • Ile-de-France