The mother of the infant fatally shot on Wednesday in Essonne was placed in police custody at the hospital, while the custody of the father and his friend was lifted, the Evry prosecutor’s office said on Friday. the AFP. “The police custody of the two people, including that of the father of the deceased child, was lifted (Friday) after having been extended (Thursday) evening,” declared the public prosecutor.
The 39-year-old mother – herself seriously injured by a firearm but whose prognosis is no longer uncertain according to the same source – was “placed in police custody on charges of murder of a minor under the age of fifteen in hospital environment “. She was heard Thursday during a “very brief” hearing where she “used her right to silence”. “Given her state of health”, the mother is receiving psychiatric treatment.
Indictment required
On Friday, the Evry public prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation for “murder of a minor under 15 years old”. He also “required that a warrant be issued against the mother of the infant for the purposes of indictment,” the prosecution further specified. This means that once she leaves the hospital, she may be indicted provided that the investigating judge follows the prosecutor’s orders.
An investigating magistrate has been contacted and will be “in particular responsible for determining precisely the circumstances of the commission of these acts”, concluded the public prosecutor. Wednesday evening, the three-month-old infant, with a gunshot wound to the chest, was taken by his father to the Fontainebleau hospital (Seine-et-Marne). According to the Evry public prosecutor’s office, the little girl died “a few minutes after her arrival at the hospital”.
The two police custody lifted
After dropping the baby off, the man returned to his home explaining that he had to go take care of his injured wife, according to a police source. She was found shot in the evening near the equestrian center of Milly-la-Forêt (Essonne), where the couple lives. Shortly after the events, the 54-year-old father and a 67-year-old friend who took him to the hospital were arrested and placed in police custody, before being released the next day.