“An absolutely terrifying and unspeakable drama”Jérôme Pasco, the mayor of Conches-en-Ouche (Eure) is still in shock and says to himself “upset” after the tragedy that occurred in his town on the night of Saturday September 23 to Sunday September 24. A three-year-old girl died this weekend, beaten to death, as revealed by Paris-Normandy.
A deputy mayor, contacted by the gendarmerie, went to the site during the night, around 3:00 a.m. The firefighters and the SAMU intervened around midnight at the family home for a cardio-respiratory arrest. Neither the first aid provided on site, nor the transfer to the Charles-Nicolle University Hospital in Rouen made it possible to save thechild enrolled in kindergarten.
The little girl was “covered in bruises” Public prosecutor Rémi Coutin told franceinfo this Tuesday. According to the mayor of the town, the child had not gone to school since “at least a week”. The child’s mother and her companion were arrested in their social housing in the town of 5,000 inhabitants and placed in police custody
The Évreux public prosecutor will hold a press conference this Tuesday at 4:00 p.m.
An open administrative investigation
The City of Conches-en-Ouche has opened an administrative investigation to understand the circumstances of the tragedy, especially since“at school, they had already seen that the little girl had bruises” advances Jérôme Pasco who recalls that his municipality has put in place monitoring systems against child crime and inter-family violence. He urges more collective vigilance on weak signals so that such a tragedy does not happen again.