- A 15 -month -old baby was found dead Thursday in a car in Namur (Belgium).
- According to the first elements of the prosecution, “the child would have remained in the vehicle following an oversight”.
Drama in Belgium. A 15-month-old baby was found dead Thursday, July 17, afternoon, in Namur, inside a car in which he had been forgotten, according to the first elements announced this Friday by the courts.
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 press release. An investigation was opened for “manslaughter” to determine the exact circumstances of the facts.
The detour by the forgotten crèche?
According to the local press (new window)the father forgot the detour by the crèche before going to his work, and the child would have stayed in the car in the parking lot of his company for several hours. Information that the prosecution refused to comment, simply indicating that “The child would have stayed in the vehicle following an oversight, according to the first elements of the investigation”
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