Deep-freeze, take 2.5
More rehash of the Korea Times, this is not what the kind of professionalism I expect from Le Figaro… Tells you how desperate and clueless journos are when it comes to “exotic” countries…
Preliminary investigation opened against French expats in Korea, suspected of infanticide
JUSTICE. Tours’ prosecutors opened yesterday a preliminary investigation on the recent discovery of two babies discovered at the residence of two French expatriates in Seoul (see yesterday’s article). Having been informed that the French couple is actually spending the summer vacations in their Indre et Loire home, the South Korean police had alerted as early as last Friday the office of Orléans’ DA. Orléans’s regional police is in charge of the investigation.
During the last few days, the Korean police seems to have spared no efforts to go to the bottom of the discovery made on July 23 by a 40 year-old Frenchman, employed by a multinational company in the automotive electronic equipment sector. Jean-Louis C. is said to have told the investigators that he found the bodies of two newborns in a plastic bag inside his freezer, during a short stay in Seoul, in the middle of his vacation. He then left Korea for France, with the consent of the police, on July 29.
Since then, a series of genetical tests done at the Korean institute for scientific investigations seem to have established that Jean-Louis C. is the father of the newborns. According to the Korea Times, other tests on smaples coming from a hair brush and two cotton swabs, supposedly belonging to his spouse, seem to point to her as the mother of the babies. Moreover, investigators have found out that this woman, aged 39, had undergone surgery in December 2003 in order to remove the uterus, following an infection. Which would prove that the death of the babies would have happened as far back as two years ago.
The Korean police, which wants to bring in the woman as a suspect, now hopes for a rompt return to Seoul of the couple. Jean-Louis C., qho was scheduled to return to Korea at the end of the month, couldn’t be forced to, since France doesn’t make it a habit of extraditing its citizens.