This Wednesday, November 6, the body of a 7-year-old child was found lifeless, in Coudes, in Puy-de-Dôme. The girl’s mother was unconscious nearby.
On the evening of Wednesday, November 6, emergency services received an alert coming from rue Baptiste-Reverdy in Coudes, a village of 1,300 inhabitants, near Issoire, in Puy-de-Dôme. As reported by the local newspaper La Montagne, around 7 p.m., they intervened on site, entered the home where the emergency had been reported, and discovered a 7-year-old girl, lifeless at the bottom of a bathtub. The mother was taken care of by the firefighters and the police, once found unconscious in the family home. Her sister, worried about not having heard from her, had called them at the end of the day.
For the public prosecutor of Clermont-Ferrand, Dominique Puechmaille, interviewed by the local newspaper La Montagne, it would a priori be “a family drama”. Two weeks ago, the mother had just moved to Coudes, after separating from her partner. The little girl was still not going to school in the town but in La Sauvetat.
For his part, the mayor of Coudes, Laurys Le Marrec, spoke of “a terrible tragedy” on France 3 Auvergne Rhône-Alpes. “It’s all the more difficult to accept when you are mayor of a small town. When such a tragedy affects children, it affects the entire community,” concludes the elected official, visibly upset by the news.
For the moment, findings are still in progress and investigators are trying to determine the circumstances of the tragedy despite the lack of elements. In addition, the Issoire research brigade was charged with the investigation according to the newspaper La Montagne. The mayor affirms that “everything has been done to ensure that the investigation takes place in the best possible conditions”.