ATToday, the two boys aged 11 and 15 live with their paternal grandmother. Too young, they will not attend their father’s trial which opens this Monday before the Assize Court of Hérault. But they know they escaped death.
On July 17, 2019, when the gendarmes arrived at their home, in the small village of Les Rives, an hour from Montpellier, the bodies of their mother and their eighteen-month-old little sister were hidden under blankets in the cellar of the House. They were still at their grandmother’s in Brittany for the holidays, when their father executed his wife with three bullets in the skull, before shooting his daughter Ombeline four times.
After putting down his 22-long rifle, Charles-Olivier Adde, 39, set off for the…