Near Toulouse: Marie, 96, dies after a violent burglary
Marie, 96, was found seriously injured at her home in Ramonville on December 11 after a burglary. She died a week later in hospital.
She could not tell her ordeal but the stigmata of her assault, on her hospital bed, testify for her. Marie, 92, took her last breath on Friday, December 17. Bruised, she succumbed to violence inflicted on her home during a burglary in Ramonville-Saint-Agne. The facts occurred on the night of December 10 to 11, in his Toulouse-type house in the heart of the city.
“The night on the ground in its song”
The widow lives there alone but receives the attention of her relatives and a nurse who visits her morning and evening. It is the latter who discovers it in the morning. “She had spent the night on the ground in her song, relates, shocked, Jaime, her nephew. When the firefighters raised her, she was confused but she spoke”. Marie was taken to hospital in serious condition. “She was then unconscious.”
What happened in this pavilion? Jaime describes: “The home was searched and the front door forced. Her attacker (s) took away the jewelry she was wearing so that the skin on her fingers was torn off. She was very scarred on her face with the black eyes. Did she try to escape? She was only a few feet from her bed. Did they drop her? “
Frozen in his silence
Hospitalized, Marie remains silent, she is unable to tell her family and the investigators the scenario of her attack. Despite the care given, she died six days later, the body bruised. Despite her age, the retiree was in good shape before that night. “She was very able-bodied even though she used a small cane. We called each other every day. She dialed my number herself even though it was stored in her phone.”
Marie’s nephew is upset. “She was scared and brutalized. Her home was completely searched. All of her jewelry was stolen and the ones she was wearing were torn off. Psychologically shocked, she remained frozen in her silence and was never able to speak out”. An investigation is opened and entrusted to the gendarmes of the Villefranche-de-Lauragais research brigade.