An autopsy was performed on both bodies but could not determine the date or cause of death.
“Two remains swaddled in a suitcase”. The bodies of two babies were found in Rumilly (Haute-Savoie) by the gendarmes on January 1, revealed Thursday The Dauphine Libere. They were discovered after a woman called 17 and contacted the authorities with suicidal intentions.
A judicial investigation was opened this Friday for “counts of murder of a minor under the age of 15”, announced the Annecy prosecutor’s office in a press release in the early afternoon.
Date and cause of death unknown
During the call to 17, the young woman, aged 35, expressed suicidal intentions but also indicated “to have the bodies of two dead babies at her home”, explained prosecutor Line Bonnet. On the indications of the 30-year-old, the gendarmes found “two remains swaddled in a suitcase” on the spot.
An autopsy was carried out on Wednesday in Grenoble (Isère), but it did not make it possible to determine the date and the cause of the deaths. Additional analyzes are currently underway.
“The presence of an umbilical cord on one of the two bodies, however, suggests that it was a newborn,” according to the prosecution.
The young woman hospitalized
“Given her state of health”, the young woman “was the subject of compulsory hospitalization. She is still hospitalized to this day and could not be heard by the investigators”, specified Line Bonnet.
In the neighborhood, the neighbors interviewed by AFP oscillated between shock and incomprehension. The family had lived for three years on the top floor of a residence within a residential estate. The testimonies of the immediate neighbors seemed to describe a discreet woman.
“I said hello to him, goodbye,” says a 53-year-old neighbor, who describes a “normal” person.
Two other foster children
The prosecution specifies that this woman lived as a couple with two children born in 2020 and 2021, who were “subject to a provisional placement order on January 1, 2023” and were “entrusted to social assistance at the childhood,” wrote the prosecution.
His companion since 2019, father of the two foster children, had been abroad since December 13. He was placed in police custody for concealment of a corpse Thursday morning on his return to France, then released Friday at 11:50 a.m., without any charge being brought against him.
The investigations in this case were entrusted to the Annecy research brigade and the Chambéry research section, with the support of the Annecy criminal identification unit.
