Haute Garonne. The car crushed against a tree concealed a terrible family secret
Through Laurent Derne
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It was Sunday 1uh December 2019, around 5 p.m., south of Toulouse. A 40 year old driver with son 5 year old son on board, lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a tree a Huosnear Saint-Gaudens (Haute-Garonne).
Critical state
The two victims were evacuated in critical condition in hospital and despite serious injuries, multiple fractures, managed to be saved by the doctors. Sad traffic accident as hundreds happen every day in France? Not quite.
The police investigation establishes that the accident… was not one. The mother of the family has indeed come to learn that son husband left her for another, after more than twenty years of living together. A real moment of madness then took hold of her.
She unties her son and runs for the tree
During the trip, she had detached his 5 year old son, seated at the rear on its reducer, before installing it at the front and disconnecting the passenger airbag. She had then deliberately rushed on the famous tree, to commit suicide, after sending back a farewell text to her husband, says The Midi Dispatch.
Sentenced to 10 years imprisonmentin February 2022, in Toulouse, his sentence has just been confirmed on appeal before the Assizes of Tarn-et-Garonne, as indicated to Toulouse news, the Prosecutor General of the Toulouse Court of Appeal. With a small hiatus at the end of the day: a conviction for assassination attempt.
“The Retained Premeditation”
” This time premeditation was retainedas well as impaired discernment [de l’accusée]. The court also ordered a socio-judicial follow-up with a treatment order, ”specifies the general prosecutor’s office.
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