A woman was arrested and placed in police custody on Tuesday February 16 after the discovery of the bodies of her children aged nine months and two and a half years in Drouville, near Nancy in Meurthe-et-Moselle.
A mother was placed in police custody in Meurthe et Moselle, after the death of her two young children on Tuesday February 16 in Drouville, a town near Nancy.
The facts took place in Drouville, in Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Children who died from suffocation?
“She was taken to the hospital to find out if her condition is compatible with police custody”. “The medical examiner is examining the bodies of the two children, who are believed to have died from suffocation, but this will have to be confirmed by an autopsy,” said the public prosecutor.
Earlier in the day, she had attacked her husband, beating him with a hammer. Wounded, he went to the hospital before going to declare the attack to the gendarmes. When he returned, his wife was no longer there. She would have gone to pick up her children at the crèche before the scheduled time, reports FranceInfo.
children in the car
At the beginning of the evening, she would have returned home to look for a stuffed animal and tell her husband that the child had to be buried with it. The gendarmes were able to arrest the woman, before she tried to attack herself. They also discovered at that time the bodies of the two young children in the car.
The woman suffered from psychological disorders and depressive episodes and also had problems in her relationship, reports FranceInfo.