A 9-year-old girl died Thursday night falling from the 7th floor of a building in Montbeliard, justice does not rule out the hypothesis of suicide, was learned Friday from concordant sources.
"Accident or suicide, we do not know". An investigation is opened and an autopsy of the girl must be practiced, according to the parquet of Montbéliard. "The mother took care of another child when that happened, she was not in the room when the little girl threw herself out of the window, according to what she told us", said prosecutor Xavier Allam. It was another child in the room who told the story to the mother, according to Allam. "Accident or suicide, we do not know" at this point, he said.
In cardiopulmonary arrest, the girl was "transported during resuscitation" to the hospital in North Franche-Comté, said firefighters. The prosecution said she died soon after being taken into charge by the emergency services. "The mother, shocked, was also evacuated" to this hospital, according to firefighters. The facts occurred in the district of Little Holland. The investigation was entrusted to the Montbéliard police station. It "must verify the circumstances in which the facts took place and the environment of the child, including school," according to a source close to the record.