A 77-year-old woman was found dead with a bleeding head in her apartment in Mérignac, on the night of January 19 to 20, 2023. The Bordeaux public prosecutor's office had entrusted an investigation into the causes of death to the departmental security police. . The death occurred a few hours before the call for help. His companion, aged 80, was interviewed about the circumstances of the discovery and an autopsy was ordered. The retiree from Listrac-Médoc was on trial this Friday, November 15 for failure to assist a person in danger. He did not appear at the Bordeaux judicial court.
Blot the wound
The picture painted by President Marc Fritsch, according to procedure, is as follows. The victim fell on his way to the kitchen, opened his skull on the tiles and lost a lot of blood. The cause of death was head trauma. According to his interviewee companion, it was around 9 p.m., “before the film started”. However, he only called for help at 3:36 a.m. the next day when he noticed that she was no longer breathing and that her body was cold. He confided that he had helped his partner to blot the wound with paper towels.
Did he deliberately refrain from calling for help? Did he have a motive? Did he show a certain indifference or did he not appreciate the seriousness of the facts? He explained to the authorities that she often fell, that she was an alcoholic and did not want help called in the event of a fall. They were frequent, which the hospital confirmed, as well as his alcoholism.
The victim's son, who filed a civil claim without seeking compensation, said “she must have fallen earlier. She ate at 7:30 p.m. That evening, the meal was not served. When he called me, it was as if to warn me that a water leak had occurred in the apartment, it shocked me. I avoided seeing them together, my mother's alcoholism dated from her relationship with him. »
The defendant was sentenced to one year in prison.
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