“I have news”: tried for double infanticide, a mother affirms that her daughters are still alive

The trial verdict is expected this Thursday, June 20. ILLUSTRATION MAXPPP – Guillaume Bonnefont

A mother is on trial before the Lot-et-Garonne Assize Court for the murder of her two multi-handicapped daughters, whom she nevertheless claims to be "still alive".

A mother accused of having killed her severely disabled little girls maintained this Wednesday, June 19 before the Lot-et-Garonne assizes that the two young girls, missing since 2016, were "still alive", while recognizing "lies"during instruction.

The two teenagers, then aged 12 and 13 and born with malformations, were last seen on December 7, 2016 in the specialized institute of Tonneins (Lot- et-Garonne), where they were taken care of.

"I maintain, I hammer it loud and clear, they are still alive. I have news", their mother Naïma Bel Allam proclaimed on Wednesday in Agen, who claims to have not seen them "since March& ;nbsp;2017".

The girls would have been "entrusted to Moroccan friends"

This ex-accountant of Moroccan origin, who appears free for "aggravated intentional homicide", nevertheless admitted to having changed his versions out of distrust of the authorities and fear of putting his daughters under guardianship, admitting that there was "truth but also lies".

She notably explained that she had entrusted her daughters to a Moroccan couple at a motorway rest area in Spain, a version denied by the investigators.

At the hearing, the fifty-year-old this time claimed to have entrusted them to a "group of friends" whom she met in 2015 in Morocco.

"I don't want to give their names so that (these people) are not bothered by the justice system", she declared, losing her temper when pressed for questions, castigating an instruction"dependent".

A woman capable of "self-convince"

An expert psychiatrist described in court on Wednesday a woman with an unstable and hostile attitude towards the entire process of justice", suffering from "distress" linked to her family's opposition to her union with a first cousin. Her husband, who then left her, is a civil party to the trial.

This expert evokes, among other hypotheses, that of a woman capable of "s’self-convincing". "It’is a defense mechanism, of denial", she analyzed.

First prosecuted for "abandonment of minors" and incarcerated in September 2017 to November& nbsp;2021, Naïma Bel Allam saw her indictment reclassified in January  2018, after the discovery of a stain "brownish" at Nérac’s home presenting the DNA of one of his daughters.

Questioned Wednesday about a deep cleaning, with seven different products, of this stain, the accused responded in a confused manner: "When I clean, I do it thoroughly".

The verdict is expected this Thursday, June 20.