A three-year-old girl died on the evening of Thursday January 12 in Paris, after she was found in critical condition in the washing machine of the family apartment. An investigation to find the cause of death has been opened.
[Mis à jour le 13 janvier 2023 à 12h49] It is a macabre case whose circumstances remain, for the moment, unclear. A three-year-old girl died on the evening of Thursday January 12, 2023, after being found in the washing machine of the Parisian apartment where she lived with her family. According to information from Parisian, it was around 10:30 p.m. that the girl’s father and one of his siblings found her in the drum of the household appliance. The father immediately called the emergency services who, on their arrival, took care of the young girl who was then in critical condition. Despite their efforts, the girl was declared dead shortly after 11:30 p.m.
What is the cause of the girl’s death?
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, to find the causes of death. The investigations were entrusted to the brigade for the protection of minors. According to the first elements, the girl could have been suffocated “but we must remain very careful”, recalls a source close to the investigation in 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”. CNews indicates for his part that no track was favored by the investigators this Friday morning, and that the findings are continuing. Hearings will also be necessary to learn more about the circumstances of this atrocious tragedy.
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 20th arrondissement of Paris where she lived with her family, the father of the victim explained that the household appliance had not turned on the hours preceding the discovery. , but the drum door was closed. The girl’s father, 48, and his wife, 37, are the parents of four other children. According to the source of Parisiantheir eldest daughter is 18 years old, and their three boys are between 7 and 16 years old.
The Ile-de-France daily specifies that the father had dinner at home with his wife and one of his children, on his way home from work. The couple has no idea what the other children were doing during their meal. Noting at the end of dinner that their little girl was not there, the whole family then set out to find her, also calling on the neighbors to come to their aid. The father called the Samu as soon as his daughter’s body was discovered.