French Gendarmes gather outside the house where the bodies of two infants have been discovered in a freezer in Ailleviller-et-Lyaumont, eastern France on February 12, 2026. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)French police have detained a woman in her fifties after two newborn babies were found dead in a freezer in eastern France, sources close to the case told AFP on Thursday. According to one source, a man alerted police on Tuesday after finding the body of a newborn in his freezer at his home in the eastern town of Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont. In 2022, two newborn babies were discovered in a woman’s freezer in southern France. In 2015, five bodies were found in a similar case, which saw the mother handed an eight-year jail term.

Source: Punch February 12, 2026 18:25 UTC