A 35-year old woman has been arrested after the discovery of a two month old baby in a freezer.

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Baby found dead in family freezer

A 35-year old woman has been arrested after the discovery of a two month old baby in a freezer.

Published: 21 December 2011 08:44 CET

The woman has admitted that she is the mother of the dead child, who was found in a freezer in the town of Vichy.

Daily newspaper Le Parisien reported on Wednesday that the 15-year-old daughter of the woman went to a police station at the weekend to report the presence of the dead baby’s body in the freezer.

When police caught up with the girl’s mother, she confessed to giving birth to the child three years ago.

She claimed to have given birth in the bath of her home and said she had not realized she was pregnant.

Police doubt this is the case and the woman’s daughter claimed her mother had “put on lots of weight.”

The body found in the freezer measured between 62 and 64 centimetres, leading investigators to believe the child was between two and three months of age at the time of death. 

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Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

An assailant on Thursday wounded two girls aged 6 and 11 in a knife attack close to their school in the east of France and was later arrested, officials said.

Published: 18 April 2024 16:33 CEST
Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

The 11-year-old was stabbed outside the school in the town of Souffelweyersheim, on the outskirts of Strasbourg, while the six-year-old was attacked by the same man nearby.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both girls are being treated in a paediatric hospital. Parents were later in the afternoon allowed to pick up their children, who had been confined to the school in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

The attacker, born in 1995, was arrested in the area where he attacked the second girl, the police said. He no longer had the knife in his hand and did not resist arrest, it added.

The attack came as Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures aimed at cracking down on violence committed by schoolchildren against their peers. There was no indication so far that the attacker had a link with the school.

“I’m really scared. We’ve been reassured that the children are safe inside, but we don’t know when we’ll be able to get them back,” Sarah, a mother of an eight-year-old pupil, told AFP before the green light was given to collect the children.

“A friend called me. She saw the commotion in front of the school as she passed by. Her reflex was to call me so that I could pick up my son.”

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