Two children aged 1 and 3 died on Wednesday December 21, 2022 in the swimming pool of a hotel in Rivière-Pilote when they drowned. According to initial findings, the mother voluntarily pushed her into the swimming pool. The third child, 5 years old and the eldest of the siblings, was able to escape. He witnessed the scene. The young woman was taken into custody (Wednesday afternoon)
Jean-Claude Samyde • Published December 21, 2022 at 7:49 p.m. updated December 21, 2022 at 8:22 p.m
The absolute horror in the middle of the day in a hotel in Rivière-Pilote: two children aged 1 and 3 years died drowned in the facility’s swimming pool.
Firefighters rushed to the scene to try to rescue two young victims who were in cardiopulmonary arrest.
According to the initial findings of the investigation, it would have been the mother in her thirties who would have pushed her voluntarily.
A third child, aged 5, ran away to escape his mother. Witnessing the whole scene, he was treated by the emergency services and taken to the MFME (home of the mother’s wife and child).
The young woman was taken into custody.
The criminal investigation services were at the scene of the infanticide in Rivière-Pilote for a long time. • ©Martinique the 1st
“Somewhere we missed something,” confided Jean-François Beaunol, the mayor of Rivière-Pilote, “without giving any further information”. The city’s very touched mayor added, “There are questions because the mother’s health should not be unknown.”
The mother and her three children were accompanied by social services. In view of an urgent situation, the family had moved into temporary accommodation at the Hotel Paradis de l’Anse since December 17, 2022.
See (again) the report by Dominique Legros and Jean-Marx Kennenga
a mother drowns two of her children • ©Martinique la 1ere
A judicial investigation is launched and entrusted to the Marin Brigade and the Research Department of the National Gendarmerie.