Europe 1 with AFP
2.31pm, November 5, 2024modified to
2.33pm, 05 November 2024
It was a terrible discovery that took place in Guadeloupe. During the night from Monday to Tuesday, two children, aged one and four, were discovered decapitated in their home. Their mother was arrested and hospitalized and an investigation into “murder by ascendancy of minors under the age of 15” was opened.
Two children, aged one and four, were discovered decapitated in their home during the night from Monday to Tuesday in Sainte-Rose (Basse-Terre), in Guadeloupe, AFP learned from the Pointe-à-prosecutor's office. Pitre, confirming information from RCI Guadeloupe. Arrested, the mother of the children was initially placed in police custody then released for incompatibility and hospitalized in psychiatry, according to the same source.
The father raised the alarm
An investigation into “murder by ascendant of minors under 15 years of age” has been opened, added Caroline Calbot, prosecutor of Pointe-à-Pitre. According to a source close to the case, the husband alerted the gendarmes around 3:30 a.m. local (8:30 a.m. in Paris) after discovering the bodies of the two children. Found a little later, the mother, aged around forty, made incoherent comments and was not able to clearly explain the reasons for her actions, the same source said.
In a state of shock, the father was taken care of by emergency services, according to RCI Guadeloupe (Radio Caraibes International). The investigation was entrusted to the Pointe-à-Pitre gendarmerie research brigade.
