The accused, a woman of a soldier, denies having committed the crime, in June 2018, and pleads the track of food poisoning. The Prosecution highlights a mythomanic personality, which maintained a fusional relationship with its two daughters.
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The trial that opened on Tuesday, December 14, in front of the Assize Court of Lyon gives vertigo. On the one hand, the overwhelming accusation of the double assassination of girls aged 3 and 5, against their mother, described as fusional, mythomaniac and without affect, perpetrated on June 10, 2018, in the apartment of function of her husband Gendarme, in the enclosure of the Limonest Brigade near Lyon. On the other hand, the accused, who categorically refutes the crime of infanticide, and his defense, who suggests the possibility of food poisoning, passed through a deficient investigation. On the first day of hearing, both versions compete in extreme tension. Accused of assassinations, Jamila El Rhoufi, 41 years old, risks perpetuity.
For the investigator of the Research section of the gendarmerie, only the mother, in permanent contact with her two children throughout the weekend, could commit the crime, in the absence of her husband, party for A trail in the Pyrenees. The autopsy evokes a “sufficiency mechanical asphyxia”, that is to say a choking.
The investigator lists the signs that could be interpreted as the engagement of a mortiferous process. Described in “second state” by witnesses, the mother gave clothes to the school of his children, the eve of the weekend. Then she sent suicidal connotation messages on social networks. At home sales colleagues, she said “seriously ill, close to the end”. Jamila El Rhoufi also wanted to dissuade his brother to visit him. Sunday, June 10, his brother, his sister-in-law and their daughter, however, disembarked without warning.
Arriving at the end of the apartment “Diving in the dark”, the loved ones were struck by the amorphous state of the eldest, on the sofa of the living room, watching a video on telephone. They were embarrassed by angle odor, and intrigued by falling asleep of the smallest, in bed upstairs, face shot against the wall. Without suspecting the drama that was drunk.
The couple was tearing
After lunch and a nap, Jamila El Rhoufi proposed to his sister-in-law to go “wake up girls”. They did not breathe anymore. According to the expertise, the youngest victims had died the previous night. The eldest, the afternoon. Warned when he was in the return train, the father immediately suspected his wife. “She poisoned them,” he dropped to his investigating colleagues, stating that he had been a victim of an attempt to poisoning the previous year, with blend on his plate.
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