2023-09-27 07:01:00
They arrived in the Assize Court courtroom around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening, but the testimonies of the accused’s husband’s colleagues were worth the wait. Several of them described a completely helpless man, “who realized that his wife did not know how to take care of their son,” said one of them. Some even say that the couple was close to breaking up. However, Madissone Massy’s husband felt more secure from the moment he found a daycare to take care of his son.
Funeral
The husband worked in a funeral home, an exemplary and punctual employee. He was very close to his colleagues, in whom he confided, and to the daughter of his bosses, whose son was born three days before little Enzo. “He was happy to learn that his son was eating fruit and vegetables at daycare, although until then he had only been drinking milk.” The witness, very moved, said that the nursery had provided a sheet with the food given to the children. Their common pediatrician also advised them to vary their food. “I also received this form and I can show you, with supporting video, that my son ate bread. I still have stained bibs. Enzo loved carrots and pumpkin. His last meal was cod,” replies the accused.
The husband’s boss says she was forced to kick Madissone out of her company because she was too present, going to places she mightn’t get to. Here too, the accused protests. “That’s not true, I only went there once and then went to Boussu, on foot. The second time, I stayed in the car with Enzo. It was too hot but I had the air conditioning on”.
Questioning behavior
The attitude of the accused during the events and following the death of her son questioned more than one person. Starting with a pediatric nurse from Hornu hospital. She returns to the episode of July 18, 2019, when the accused pressed the alarm bell five times, declaring four times that it was a mistake, before timidly asking for help for her son who was dying. on the bed.
“I have forty years of service and this is the first time I have seen this. Usually, when a child is unwell, the parents don’t ring the bell, they yell in the corridors and come to get us. It was a strange attitude,” says the nurse.
The husband’s colleague remembers an exchange between the spouses at the funeral home, just following the child’s death. “He told her to get it out of her head. I did not understand. He told me that she was afraid that people would discover that the child had suffocated to death. I have never heard a mother ask this kind of thing, in eighteen years of service”.
Traces of suffocation
The accused asked her husband’s boss if the autopsy would reveal signs of suffocation, two days following the child’s death. The boss preferred to call the police. “I certainly asked the question. I was afraid because of the blanket that was on my son,” replies the accused. Certainly, but the nurses interviewed on Tuesday are categorical: there was no blanket on the child!
Finally, the accused was not present when her son was placed in the coffin. This absence concerns more than one witness. “I didn’t participate in putting my daughter in a coffin either,” she says.
During the testimony of witnesses, the accused often showed his annoyance through gestures. “These people don’t know me,” she said.
On Wednesday, the court will hear the last witnesses before moving on to the lawyers’ pleadings and the prosecution’s submissions. Murder or assault resulting in death without intention to cause it? The verdict will probably come on Thursday.
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