She also said she bought beers, a roll of tape and garbage bags after killing her children. She wanted to “end her life”, a desire “corroborated by the presence of handwritten letters” found in her vehicle and in which she said “want to end her life”.
Apparently psychologically fragile, she would have suffered from episodes of depression in the past and had relationship problems.
She had first assaulted her husband with a hammer
Before killing her children, she had first assaulted her husband on Tuesday morning with a hammer. Slightly injured, he was able to reach the hospital and then went to the gendarmerie to report the attack, but on his return to his home his wife was no longer there.
At the very beginning of the afternoon, she had picked up her two children from the crèche where they were normally kept for the day. The gendarmes then set out to find her and tried to locate her, without success at first.
It was only at the beginning of the evening that the mother of the family had returned home to look for a stuffed animal of her daughter, declaring to her husband that she had to be buried with it.
A psychological unit for gendarmes and firefighters
The gendarmes, who were watching the house, had then succeeded in arresting the young woman and had discovered the bodies of her two children in the passenger seat, at the front of the car.
A psychological cell had been set up for the gendarmes and firefighters who intervened in Drouville on Tuesday evening.