“In the little girl’s room, there were toys and a lot of blood”: the statements of the investigators brought the trial of the relatives of Hyana, who died as a result of ill-treatment, into the horror of the case on Tuesday. The main investigator froze the Cher Assize Court on Tuesday, giving this trial the solemn tone that it had not necessarily had on the first day.
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The judicial police officer thus recounted the procedure, which began on December 30, 2017, when little Hyana was deposited in a coma in the emergency room in Bourges. She died two weeks later from her injuries. The policeman described the distressing autopsy of the child: “We have in front of us a six-year-old child covered with burns, bites, bruises. When we opened the body, we saw fractures in the legs, in the fingers. had never seen that. ”
“The emotion was complicated, it still is”, he breathed, visibly marked.
While he did not go into details, the proceedings show a body bruised by 32 wounds, including 14 bites. The official also described the “numerous traces of blood in the accommodation” of the mother, Noémie P … “Traces of dried blood and traces of blood cleaned,” he said.
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The young woman, then 22 years old, had dropped off the child at the hospital by presenting herself under a false name, before fleeing with her companion. A short run since they had been arrested a few days later in Toulouse.
At the request of the court, the investigators also told of the custody, trying to describe a mother “impassive”. “During the 48 hours of police custody, she did not ask for news of the little one,” the officer explained.
“She cried only very briefly, showing no emotion even at the mention of the injuries.”
“Hide behind tears”
During the hearing on Tuesday, the young mother this time burst into tears, before recovering. Accused of complicity in torture or acts of barbarism that resulted in death without intention of giving it, the courts reproach him above all for having tried to hide the blows received by the child by removing her from school and defeating the judicial placement measures. decided three months before the fatal blows.
“We realized that since (her companion) ‘s release from prison, she had been living in recluse with her daughter. She could not help noticing the wounds,” said the officer.
As for the main defendant, Hamza B., 24 years old at the time of the facts, he returned to the fatal blow on December 29, 2017: he said he slapped Hyana for a tablet story. She fell, she convulsed, explained the one his relatives describe as impulsive. “I am not the author of all violence”, defended the young man who has spent most of his adult life in prison.
“It’s easy to blame myself, with my background. It’s easy to hide behind tears,” he told the mother before addressing the court. “If we compare our profiles, it’s easy to see me as the author of all these monstrous facts.” The mother of the child and her companion face life imprisonment.
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