PORTRAIT. Day to day 16 years after she killed her 5 children with a butcher knife: Geneviève Lhermitte (56) gets euthanasia | Interior

Five-time child murderer Geneviève Lhermitte (56) has requested and received euthanasia. The woman from Nivelles who killed her five children one by one with a butcher knife on February 28, 2007, was released from her ‘mental suffering’ day after day 16 years after the horrific facts – a date that was probably not chosen by chance. “Sometimes I think I’d better be dead. The distance with my children is too far. Whatever the punishment here, it doesn’t matter. The punishment is already there. Until the end of my days,” she said at her trial. A portrait of the mother who killed Myriam (9), Nora (12), Mina (7), Yasmine (14) and Mehdi (3).