Coudes (Puy de-Dôme): a 7-year-old girl found dead at home, disturbing circumstances

This Wednesday, November 6, the body of a 7-year-old girl was found lifeless in Coudes, in Puy-de-Dôme. The girl's mother was unconscious nearby.

On the evening of Wednesday, November 6, emergency services received an alert from Rue Baptiste-Reverdy in Coudes, a village of 1,300 inhabitants near Issoire in Puy-de-Dôme. As reported by the local newspaper La Montagne, around 7 p.m., they arrived on the scene, entered the home where the emergency had been reported, and discovered a 7-year-old girl, unconscious at the bottom of a bathtub. The mother was taken care of by the firefighters and the police, once she was found unconscious in the family home. Her sister, worried about having no news, called them at the end of the day.

For the public prosecutor of Clermont-Ferrand, Dominique Puechmaille, interviewed by the local newspaper La Montagne, it would be a priori "of a family drama". Two weeks ago, the mother had just moved into the house. Elbows, after separating from her companion. The little girl was still not in school in the town but in the community. La Sauvetat.

For his part, the mayor of Coudes, Laurys Le Marrec, spoke of a terrible tragedy. on France 3 Auvergne Rhône-Alpes. "It's all the more difficult to accept when you're the mayor of a small town. When such a tragedy affects children, it affects the entire community," concludes the elected official, visibly upset by the news.

For the moment, the findings are still ongoing and investigators are trying to determine the circumstances of the tragedy despite the lack of evidence. In addition, the Issoire search brigade was tasked with the investigation according to the newspaper La Montagne. The mayor states that “everything has been done to ensure that the investigation takes place in the best possible conditions”.