Hope was extinguished in Villefontaine. The eight-year-old child thrown from the fourth floor of a building in this town in Isère died on Saturday. Admitted in a coma on October 27, shortly after the tragedy, to the woman-mother-child hospital in Bron, he had been “in a state of brain death” for forty-eight hours, according to information from the Dauphiné Libéré.
While his parents were out shopping, the child fell from the balcony of the family apartment around 9 a.m. Before help arrived, the tenant of the ground floor apartment where the child was lying had provided him with first aid.
Psychiatric expertise still awaited
Also in the apartment were his two sisters, aged around ten, but the police quickly suspected the older brother, aged 26. He was therefore arrested and then placed in police custody, accused of having caused his brother to fall.
Upon his arrest, the young man immediately showed violent behavior by biting a police officer. He “has since remained hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, in an isolation room, due to the serious disorders from which he suffers” relates the Dauphiné Libéré. According to the newspaper's information, “the psychiatric expertise requested has still not been able to be carried out as part of an investigation which should soon be reclassified as homicide of a 15-year-old minor.”
