The three children, a nine-year-old girl and two boys aged 10 and 13, died on a Sunday in July 2018, drowned in a lake in Chalon-sur-Saône. This Friday morning, the mother-in-law of the three little victims was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to a three-year suspended prison sentence, reports the Journal of Saone-et-Loire.
The mayor of the city, Gilles Platret, appeared because the civil party considered that there were no signs around the lake informing of the danger of the site. The elected LR was released.
For his part, the mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône, Gilles Platret, had been summoned to appear by the civil party. He too had to answer for manslaughter. What was he accused of? The lack of informative panels highlighting the dangerousness of the site around the lake. The elected LR was released.
How had they ended up at the edge of the water?
On July 27, 2018, the Chalon-sur-Saône prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation against X for manslaughter after the triple tragedy that occurred on Sunday July 8, in the Prés Saint-Jean lake.
Justice and the investigators in charge of the case tried to understand how the three children had escaped the vigilance of their mother-in-law who accompanied them that day. How did three children who couldn’t swim find themselves at the water’s edge?
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The first elements of the investigation had indicated, at the time, that the two youngest had moved away from their mother-in-law to simply soak their feet in the water, before slipping at a place where the bottom goes down almost straight. Their big brother had tried in vain to rescue them, but he couldn’t swim either.
2023-05-12 12:00:34
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