In 2005, a couple from Saint-Gratien tragically lost their 3-year-old son. For 18 years, death is classified as natural, but an unexpected revelation will turn the case upside down.
On March 22, 2005, in the town of Saint-Gratien (Val-d’Oise), a mother discovered her three-year-old son, little Gildas, dead in his crib. She then just returned from work when she made this terrible discovery. This morning, “leaving his son in the care of the daddy” she was gone like every day. According to the first statements to the investigators of the father of the family, the little boy cried very hard, and without stopping. To help him calm down, he maintains that he would have laid him on his back, between two cushions so that he wouldn’t fall out of bed. The man explains that he then took his eyes off the toddler, just long enough to take a shower and then shave. The crying of little Gildas would then have stopped, and his father claims that at that time he seemed to be sleeping normally.
The drama that affects the family is immense, but the death is attributed to a natural death, and the case is closed without an autopsy being carried out. The couple, very devout Catholics, migrated to Switzerland in the months that followed. The matter remains there, until one morning in late July 2023, 18 years later. The Swiss authorities contacted the Pontoise public prosecutor’s office. As they investigate the family for a child custody story, the mother of little Gildas reveals to them that he did not die of natural causes, but was indeed killed by his husband.
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The father of the family confesses in police custody
Aged 52 today, the father is immediately summoned by the Pontoise prosecutor’s office, before which he is indicted for murder of a minor in early August. At first, the man denies, but he ends up confessing the terrible truth. This morning in March 2005, around 10 a.m., he allegedly placed a pillow over his son’s face, exasperated by her crying. A gesture that he made no attempt to hide when his wife came home the same evening. According to the first hearings carried out within the framework of the investigation, he would also have mentioned the crime on several occasions during the last 18 years, and this in front of various friends and close witnesses.
The 52-year-old man was released on bail. Working in the international development sector for the Catholic Church, he has already been auditioned several times. Those close to him describe him as a man “clever, but manipulative, humiliating and destructive.” The investigation is still ongoing to shed light on the case of this infanticide, concealed for nearly two decades.
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