“I could only hold her in my arms for five months less three days. Coraline Coppin is Alice’s mother, who died at her nanny’s house on May 5, 2015 in Bègles (Gironde). That morning, the childminder, who has since been convicted of manslaughter, made the child fall while carrying her from one room to another, put her back to bed after calming her crying without telling either parents or rescue and found her dead a few hours later. Rescued in time, Alice could have been saved.
Justice is dragging
Eight years later, Coraline Coppin would like her legal ordeal…
“I could only hold her in my arms for five months less three days. Coraline Coppin is Alice’s mother, who died at her nanny’s house on May 5, 2015 in Bègles (Gironde). That morning, the childminder, who has since been convicted of manslaughter, made the child fall while carrying her from one room to another, put her back to bed after calming her crying without telling either parents or rescue and found her dead a few hours later. Rescued in time, Alice could have been saved.
Justice is dragging
Eight years later, Coraline Coppin would like her legal ordeal to end, but justice is dragging on and her mourning is impossible. She knows she can’t go back, but finds it hard to move forward. “As long as we constantly question what happened, I cannot cry my baby, be consoled or lay down my sorrow. “Because of twists and turns, referrals to hearings, it is constantly brought back to this morning of May 2015.
“Survival takes all the time, all the energy, all that remains after death”
“We literally feel the ground open up under our feet,” says Coraline Coppin. The heady questions, the seething anger, the sprawling grief devour the head, the stomach. “That day, I became a beast. It was screaming inside, all the time and I was going to sniff everywhere I could find its scent. I still feel the warmth of her little hands that she let hang down my back. »
The young mother has the feeling that life is moving forward when she is stagnating. For eight years. Every daily gesture is always a test. The mother is also haunted by guilt. For having chosen “this woman” to take care of Alice, for not having been there to protect her, to hold her hand, to save her. “She didn’t know she mattered. »
A miracle baby
Born thanks to PMA, Alice was “a miracle baby”. Her mother remembers “every puncture, every failure, every injection, every examination” when, “shot with fatigue”, she clung to this dream come true: a little girl.
Now divorced, settled in Pau, new mother of a little girl, she still feels dazed with grief, her heart in a vice that only loosens during simple and beautiful moments spent with her two children who are there. His suns. They revive her. She tries to cushion the pain that has ricocheted off them. She is afraid of damaging them with her grief.
She wants to make people understand that thinking of one, absent, does not prevent them from loving the other two very much. Coraline Coppin sometimes has the feeling of leading a double life. ” It’s exhausting. Survival takes all the time, all the energy, all that remains after death”.
“Her name was Alice, she was very sweet, very warm and funny, she was perfect down to her smallest faults. I miss her endlessly and forever.”
Coraline Coppin, Alice’s mother would like to finish with the legal aspect to, finally, “be able to cry for my baby”.
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Need to get involved
Coraline Coppin cannot remain powerless, away from the procedure. She needs to act, to get involved. The latest decision recognizes her parents, her ex-husband, herself and her children as victims. Even Alice. “It was not a natural death. For the first time, I said out loud, I thought, I felt that it was over, that I could be appeased, ”remains the now Pau. But the announcement of a new civil appeal hearing stunned her.
“We have to start from scratch again, and have to wait again for months which will be counted in years so that finally someone, somewhere, redeliberates to know if and how we should recognize the facts, it is unbearable. “
She fights for Alice’s memory, against oblivion. She would like to retain the memories of each moment but they escape her. “Her name was Alice, she was very sweet, very warm and funny, she was perfect down to her smallest flaws. I miss her endlessly and forever. »
A legal nightmare
Alice died on May 5, 2015. On December 18, 2019, her nanny, convicted of manslaughter, received a two-year suspended prison sentence. She appealed, as did the prosecution. On April 29, 2021, the Court of Appeal increased the sentence and imposed a penalty of thirty months in prison, six of which are firm. During these two hearings, the shortcomings of the judicial institution and in particular its slowness throughout the criminal procedure were recorded. There remained the hearing on civil interests. Postponed five times, it was finally held on December 13, 2022. The decision of February 14, 2023 takes into account the grief of the whole family and even recognizes a prejudice of imminent death anguish for Alice. But the nanny’s insurance company appealed. “An explosion”, for relatives. No hearing date is set. Coraline Coppin wrote to the registry. “To beg, again, a little attention. »
2023-07-10 20:19:21
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