On Wednesday, Ambre, Amandine’s older sister and her younger brother, Ethan, gave moving stories of the ordeal experienced at the family home. They talk about their sister’s last moments and their mother’s influence.
Before the Montpellier assizes, Wednesday January 22, Ambre, 19 years old today, returned to the manipulation of which she and her brother were victims, for months at the family home. Also, she delivers a chilling account of the hell endured by her sister, Amandine, until the end due to her conditions of detention and the decisions made by her mother.
When Amandine, 13, died in a village near Béziers in Hérault, Ambre had no choice but to confirm the version of events developed by her mother concerning her sister’s disappearance. Amandine would have died of a miscarriage due to eating disorders. As a reminder, she only weighed 28 kilos and was 1.55 m tall when she died. In reality, “I wanted to protect my mother, so I said what she asked me to say,” she admitted, before a chilling story.
“Amandine started foaming at the mouth”
On August 6, 2020, Sandrine Pissara, the mother, informed Ambre that Amandine was doing very badly. “I washed her in the shower. Amandine tried to talk to me, but I didn’t understand,” her sister told the audience. “Then I dressed her and placed her on the bed. Mom said she was going to get the car to take her to the hospital. Amandine started foaming at the mouth. Jean-Michel (the companion by Sandrine Pissara) put her in the side safety position, I said: let it go, she is dead Then the firefighters came up, she was in cardiac arrest”, says Ambre, with a fairly high rate of speech. this Wednesday, facing the Hérault Assize Court.
-Manipulated by her mother, the young woman reveals that she had at the time served the latter’s speech to investigators, describing Amandine as “thief, hypocrite and vicious”, with “eating disorders”. She didn’t see Amandine often. She only went out “to clean, in a t-shirt then naked, to prevent her from stealing from the snack cupboard”, she remembers.
His little brother “only hit two or three times a month”
Ambre is not the only one to deliver a poignant story on this third day of the trial. Her little brother, Ethan, now 15 years old, assures that his mother “used him as a guard” and “hit his sister’s head” against the wall. She was often naked when she did the housework. he confirms. And when she did it wrong? Her mother also hit her. “I was only hit two or three times a month. For me, it was normal to be hit. I still love my mother, but not as much as before. My mother, she will take her punishment, she deserves it,” he said.
If Amandine was his sister as he recalled, he concedes that he did not have “many ties with her”, because “she was often locked up”. “I knew she wasn’t eating, so I was feeding her under the door,” he continues. Disobedience towards his mother which will be in vain. Amandine died of hunger and in excruciating suffering.
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