A 15-month-old baby was found dead Thursday afternoon in Namur, Belgium, inside a car in which he had been forgotten, according to the first elements announced on Friday by the courts on Thursday. The medical examiner who examined the body concluded that “a death linked to hyperthermia”, “without an intervention of a third party”, said the Namur prosecution in a statement.
An investigation was opened for “manslaughter” to determine the exact circumstances of the facts. According to the local press, the father forgot the detour by the crèche before going to his work, and the child would have stayed several hours in the car in the parking lot of his company.
Information that the prosecution refused to comment, simply indicating that “the child would have remained in the vehicle following an oversight, according to the first elements of the investigation”. According to our colleagues from the Belgian newspaper “the future”, it was the grandparents, who had to go and recover the child from the crèche who gave the alert. It was summer time Thursday in Belgium, with seasonal temperatures oscillating around 25 ° C in the afternoon.
