Overview
- Police say the 35-year-old mother phoned emergency services around 6:20 a.m. from the family home in the 8th arrondissement to report she had killed her son.
- Officers and firefighters arrived minutes later and found the child, about 11 years old, deceased.
- The mother was arrested and placed in police custody, and a medical evaluation was scheduled to determine her fitness to remain detained.
- Prosecutors in Lyon opened a criminal investigation and assigned it to the division of territorial criminality.
- Local outlets report the boy was attacked with a knife and suffered a neck wound, and they cite the mother’s psychological problems including reported bipolar disorder, though forensic confirmation has not been made public.