French Ex-Nurse Sentenced to 30 Years for Double Infanticide in Morocco

The tragedy took place on November 28, 2022, when the judicial authorities initiated an investigation to determine the details of this crime that shook the city of Marrakech. The victims were two minors, aged 9 and 13, found lifeless in a hotel room located in the Hivernage district, alongside their father in a comatose state. According to the investigators, the children were killed by injection of a substance that their father also used to attempt suicide.

No signs of violence, apart from injection marks on the back, were found on the children’s bodies. The accused, taken to the emergency room, survived thanks to medical intervention.

A tragedy following a divorce?

A family conflict would be at the heart of this drama. Residing in France, the couple was living happily until the day when the mother of the two victims, without consulting her husband, decided to settle permanently in Morocco with her children. They will eventually divorce. It is in this context that the father decided to go to Marrakech to see his children, to whom he proposed to spend the night with him in the hotel. The rest is what the police discovered with the two deceased children and the father in critical condition.

Many elements found at the hotel, such as a handwritten letter, syringes, point to the father as the sole responsible for this tragedy. There are also precedents like his opposition to his ex-wife’s decision to settle in Morocco with the two children that do not plead in his favor.