A three-year-old girl died last night in Paris after being found in critical condition in the washing machine of the apartment where she lived with her family. The causes of death are not yet known.
It’s a shock for the family. A three-year-old girl died on the night of Thursday January 12 after being found in a washing machine in Paris. It was none other than the girl’s father who found the child in the drum of the household appliance around 10:30 p.m. The Parisian. The little one was in critical condition when she was discovered and died an hour later despite the rapid arrival of help, called by the father of the family.
The origin of the death of the little girl is not yet known and is the subject of an investigation opened overnight by the Paris prosecutor’s office and entrusted to the brigade for the protection of minors. According to the first elements, the child could have been suffocated “but you have to be very careful”, reminds a police source to the Ile-de-France newspaper. And the latter to add: “We do not know at all what happened. Apparently, she did not bear any trace of blows. The autopsy will allow us to know much more”.
What was the little girl doing in the washing machine?
If the little girl was found in the washing machine of the apartment in the XXth arrondissement of Paris where the family lives, the father of the victim explained that the household appliance had not turned on the hours preceding the discovery but that the drum door was closed.
The 48-year-old man, his wife and children, the couple are parents of five children, realized the absence of the little girl after dinner. The Parisian specifies that the man had dinner at home with his wife and one of his five children on his way home from work. The couple has no idea what the children were doing during their meals.