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Drama near Toulouse: a grandmother and her 8-month-old grandson drown in a swimming pool

A 75-year-old grandmother and her 8-month-old grandson drowned on Friday July 15, 2022 in a swimming pool in Préserville, 25 kilometers south-east of Toulouse, AFP learned on Saturday July 16 from a source close to investigation.

It was our colleagues from La Dépêche who gave the information this Saturday. According to the first elements, the infant’s mother had entrusted him to his mother-in-law for the time to leave the home to give a lesson. When she returned, she looked for them everywhere, before finding their bodies in the swimming pool, under the tarp that covered it.

A neighbor called in reinforcement tried to revive the victims while waiting for help to arrive. Despite his efforts, those of the firefighters and the Smur, the sexagenarian and the baby died. According to the various testimonies collected on the spot by our colleagues from La Depêche, the father of the child, also a musician, gave a concert in the Gard and his wife was absent for a violin lesson.

The gendarmes of the research brigade of the company of Toulouse Saint-Michel and those of the community of brigades of Balma intervened part of the night to carry out the investigation and make the first observations. This Saturday, the accidental track suffered no dispute, indicates La Dépêche.

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