A 44-year-old woman, suspected of having slit the throat of her 19-year-old daughter with whom she lived in Mulhouse, was hospitalized under duress, the prosecution announced on Friday.
The police services were called on October 11 by the Muslim funeral directors requested by the suspect, explains Jean-François Assal, deputy public prosecutor of Mulhouse, confirming information from the newspaper L’Alsace. Investigators discovered “a crime scene given the condition of the victim who was lying on the floor in his room wrapped in a sheet,” continued the magistrate, specifying that “the premises had previously been meticulously cleaned.”
Numerous wounds “probably caused by a bladed weapon” were noted and a ceramic knife, “found placed under bags”, could “probably” be the weapon used, specified Jean-François Assal. “The victim could have had her throat slit by her mother, who was strongly Islamized,” he added. The victim’s mother was taken into custody. “Although French, born in France and having studied in France, (she) refused to communicate other than in Arabic.”
The first conclusions of the autopsy carried out on the victim’s body confirmed the slit throat. The victim had a total of 16 wounds and defensive wounds, “seeming to suggest that she tried to resist before succumbing”.
The mother’s custody was lifted “following a psychiatric opinion indicating an incompatibility and she was placed in compulsory hospitalization”. A judicial investigation has been opened for murder. The young girl, like her mother, had followed the radicalization prevention program.
“Even if the investigation must provide answers, I think it would be wrong to focus on this dimension of radicalization. Unfortunately, I think that the mother’s psychiatric pathologies must be taken into account,” underlined the deputy public prosecutor, Carine Greff. She explained that the prosecution had tried to prosecute the mother “twice for removing a minor from an educational obligation”, after a report from National Education due to her daughter’s high absenteeism.
“But the mother had been declared irresponsible each time due to serious psychiatric deficiencies,” said the magistrate, explaining that “it was at this moment that the adolescent had been taken from her” to be “placed until her 18 years old. Once she came of age, the young girl returned to live with her mother.
