Two children aged one and four years were found dead during the night from Monday to Tuesday in Sainte-Rose (Basse-Terre), in Guadeloupe. The bodies of the two boys, decapitated, were discovered by their father around 3:30 a.m. local time (8:30 a.m. in Paris), indicated the Pointe-à-Pitre prosecutor's office, confirming information from RCI.
The father, in a state of shock, immediately alerted the police after his macabre discovery. According to a source close to the case, emergency services quickly intervened and took care of the father on the spot. When firefighters arrived, they found that there was nothing more they could do for the children.
Mother found naked in the street
The children's mother, aged around forty, was found wandering on the public highway in Bébel, an area of Sainte-Rose, naked and singing. According to information from
RCIthe woman was making incoherent comments. She was arrested by the police and then placed in police custody. After a psychiatric examination, she was finally hospitalized.
An investigation into “murder by ascendant of minors under the age of 15” was opened by the Pointe-à-Pitre public prosecutor’s office, said public prosecutor Caroline Calbot. The investigation was entrusted to the Pointe-à-Pitre gendarmerie research brigade. At this stage, the exact circumstances of the tragedy remain to be determined.
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