The British media recently reported a tragic woman who was locked in her mother’s attic for 25 years because her family was upset by her choice of the other half of the future. She did not want to listen to her family’s marriage arrangements, rather Choose your own love.
In the end, if someone hadn’t reported to the authorities, this beautiful woman named Blanche Monnier might die slowly in a windowless room, just as her biological mother had planned. .
This is one of the most terrifying cases of forced imprisonment in foreign history. Although more than a century has passed since this incident, the shocking and angry feeling behind the incident still exists today. People cannot imagine the viciousness of this family.
According to a recent report by the British “Daily Star”, Blanche made it clear to her mother that she would not marry any man “selected” by her mother, and that she would always choose the love she wanted, not the love her mother wanted. money. Not long after she said these words, she disappeared from people’s sight.
The truth of the matter is that Blanche’s mother, Mrs. Monier, and son Marcel locked Blanche in the attic of the house. The windows of the attic were nailed with wooden boards, and they locked her on the bed. From time to time, neighbors heard her screaming, but Mrs. Monier explained that her daughter was crazy, and gradually people really believed it.
Mrs. Monier’s family regarded Blanche as air or thought she was no longer alive. They even held a public memorial service. But this nasty family just continued their lives, as if this daughter had never been in this family.
But Blanche had always been there, and somewhere a few feet above them, she was slowly rotted in a locked room on the roof. A video on YouTube, a well-known video site, showed that Blanche had been locked in the bed in the attic room until she was rescued when she was 50 years old.
As one can imagine, she was forced to defecate where she slept. While eating can only eat leftovers thrown by the servants on her dirty bed from the narrow door outside, such a flowery girl has been completely ignored by people. Her weight later fell to 25 kg.
During that period of imprisonment, she had been trapped alone in a dark environment, and her body was severely malnourished. The loneliness that no one can speak makes her no longer her, and from time to time there are rats and insects crawling to eat food scraps and Blanche’s rotting body. She slowly became mentally crazy and lost the ability to speak.
Blanche at the time of discovery
But on May 23, 1901, Blanche’s chance to be rescued came. The Paris Attorney-General’s Office received a mysterious letter that day. The Daily Star reported the contents of the letter: “Mr. Attorney-General, I unfortunately inform you that I found a very serious problem. matter.”
“What I’m talking about below is about a poor old girl who was locked in Madame Mounier’s house and was half hungry. She lived for 25 years in the foul-smelling rubbish. In short, she has lived these years. I have been lingering alive in the filth of my body. ”
The authorities were skeptical about this at first, because the Monier family was considered a respected noble family in the local area, but they still went to investigate the truth—thankfully, they did. They saw a locked door in the attic, and when it was opened, the stench from this almost impermeable room was blowing over their faces.
According to media reports, an eyewitness on the scene said: “We immediately ordered the windows of the room to be opened. The whole process took a long time because the old dark curtains there fell in a cloud of dust. If you want to open the curtains behind For the blinds, the curtains must be removed first, as well as the wooden boards nailed to the front of the window.”
“After opening the window, as soon as the light from outside shone into the room, we noticed a thin woman lying on the bed inside. Her head and body were covered by a disgustingly dirty blanket. Her name was Blanche Monier.”
“This unfortunate woman is lying naked on a rotten straw mat. Poor her is surrounded by all kinds of garbage, including feces, meat, vegetables, fish residue and bread crumbs .”
“When we walked in, we saw many different bugs crawling across this woman’s bed. The smell in the air in the room was really unpleasant, and it gave off a disgusting smell. We couldn’t stay and investigate anymore. The situation on the scene is obvious, and facts speak louder than words.”
This incident shocked the French authorities. Both Mrs. Monier and her son Marcel (also Blanche’s brother) were captured by the authorities. Blanche lived in the dark for 25 years, and became extremely weak due to fear of the sun, so he was quickly rushed to the hospital.
After that, she lived for 16 years. Blanche was called La Séquestrée de Poitiers in French, and died in a mental hospital in 1913. The elderly Mrs. Monier died in prison half a month after being caught, while her son filed an appeal against the 15-month sentence and escaped punishment by taking advantage of the law.
