4-year-old child found with his throat slit in his bedroom after an argument between his parents: “We all have goosebumps, it’s incomprehensible…”

“We all have goosebumps, it’s incomprehensible… It was a family without history, they never had any problems with the police or the municipality.” These are the words of Béatrice Moureau. The mayor of Berloz, in Belgium, reacted to Sudinfo about the terrible news story which shook his town on Sunday November 10: a 4-year-old child was found with his throat slit in his bedroom upstairs in the family home.

An “infanticide”

It was the father, getting up in the morning after sleeping on the sofa downstairs, who made the terrible discovery. A vision of horror. The day before, he had argued with his partner. “When he entered the 4-year-old’s room, he found his child’s throat slit”explained the police, cited by our colleagues. The child's mother, who had left the home by car, was arrested. The father also. An investigation is underway. This is a “infanticide” according to Catherine Collignon, first deputy of the King of Liège prosecutor.

Béatrice Moureau said on Sunday that the argument between the two adults had not been violent. Berloz is a French-speaking municipality in Belgium located in the Walloon region in the province of Liège. The family, according to Sudinfowould have settled there “about five or six years ago. The child found lifeless was not educated in a school in the town, but in Waremme”.