She wanted to relieve them, not kill them. And yet, it is indeed ten deaths that Ludivine Chambet leaves in her wake. Between 2012 and 2013, thirteen residents aged 82 to 95 from the Césalet nursing home, near Chambéry (Savoie) were victims of the caregiver. Three will survive.
This Tuesday, his trial opens at the Savoy Assize Court for “poisoning of a vulnerable person”. She faces life imprisonment.
Her colleagues describe her as a “simple, kind and generous” young woman, underlines Henri Seckel, journalist at the World. A 33-year-old single woman, without stories, without children and who proceeded in a methodical way to commit the irreparable.
She was waiting for her colleagues to be no longer around, “because otherwise they would have found it suspicious”, relates the daily. The one we nicknamed “the poisoner” then poured half a pipette of anxiolytic and neuroleptic mixed with water into the glass of her victims.
These are the toxicological analyzes and the history of the schedules of the health personnel which will lead the investigators to arrest Ludivine Chambet on December 10, 2013. Several people in the establishment had access to the cupboard which contained the psychotropic drugs, but the nurse’s aide was systematically on duty on the days of the dramas.
The nurse admitted the facts – for eleven of the thirteen victims – but affirms that she did not know the side effects of these drugs. She saw that the patients “were not well or that they were anxious. They hadn’t asked her anything, but she felt they needed to be appeased.
Justice has until May 24 to determine the circumstances of these serial deaths. “The history of his computer also spoke, specifies Henri Seckel. Between April and November 2013, queries on the Internet of a particular kind were found: “how to kill a person”, “poison a man”, “medication causing cardiac arrest”, “cause a coma”, “Tercian Loxapac association Rivotril”.
The death of her mother following leukemia in June 2013 and which she was very close to, did she play in these acting out? When he returns to work, his colleagues describe bizarre behavior.
Did his illness have an influence on his behavior? Ludivine Chambet was born premature with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. A pathology that will require several operations. Specialists will rule out mental illness but not “psychic disorder that may have, moreover very moderately, altered his discernment and control of his actions”.
