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Teacher kills her five children in Belgium

01 March 2007 12:20 (UTC +04:00)

Terrible murder happened in Nivelles, Belgium, APA reports. 40-year old teacher Genevieve Lermit stabbed her five children. On returning from school she killed four girls Yasemin (15 years old), Nora (12 years old), Myriam (10 years old), Minan (8 years old) and a boy Mehdi (4 years old) and committed suicide. Taping a note reading "Call the police, urgent" to the front door the mother called police, confessed that she had killed her children and said she would commit suicide. Genevieve was hospitalized in a critical condition.
The head of the family Bouchaid Moqadem (42 years old) knew about the event from the police and psychologists at the airport returning after a month-vacation. Mogadem married Genevieve Lermit 16 years ago. He worked in medical sector and had no financial problems.
Genevieveâ€™s sister Caterine Lermit told the press that Genevieve had psychological problems and had been cured for six years.
â€œWe were three sisters. We had problems in our childhood. Our mother and father used to insult us and did not love us,â€? she said.
She also reproached her brother-in-law for leaving his wife and five children.
In Belgium, one of the ten countries where living standards are high, the number of suicides is increasing. The number of suicides surpassed the number of the people died in car accidents. /APA/