“This Wednesday, May 7, 2025, I killed myself after committing an infanticide in the person of my daughter, Emma. Posting on the LinkedIn professional social network, it was these glazing words that alerted the mother of a 13 -year -old girl. The latter Was found dead on Friday with his father at Murs-Erignéa town on the banks of the Loire in the Angevin countryside.
Philippe Chabert, Emma’s father, was arrested and placed in police custody. He recognized the facts but his police was lifted and was hospitalized under duress. The 42-year-old suspect was still not heard on Monday, Angers prosecutor’s office was learned. It “will only be so when the green light We will be given by doctors, ”specifies Éric Bouillard, public prosecutor.
It is the college that alerts Emma’s mother on Friday: the latter did not appear in class. Her mother tries to join her, to call her father, from which she has been separated since 2018 and in whom the teenager was. No one answers.
Sentenced for harassment and death threats at the end of March
And it is on social networks that the mother discovers horror. Philippe Chabert announces that he killed Emma and put an end to his life. Accompanying this succinct message, posted on its site dedicated to the news of the notariat, the forties posts a work in 240 -page PDF. He explains: “I tell you in this post-mortem work” The notaries killed me, justice provided them with arms “the reasons for this judicial violence which destroys whole lives, which destroys couples and pushes men to commit the irreparable. “He calls on Internet users to take it:” Advice, download it quickly and share it around you before the institutions have this publication deleted. »»
On reading these words, Emma’s mother triggers the intervention of the emergency services in Murs-Erigné. The girl is discovered dead. A death that dates back to Wednesday evening. “The child’s autopsy confirmed a death caused by the action of a third party, compatible with the writing left by his father,” explains the prosecutor Éric Bouillard, who, on the other hand, refuses to extend “on the operating mode of the accused”.
Near the adolescent body, Philippe Chabert, her father is found alive, but he absorbed medication. Placed in police custody, he is, after only a few hours, finally hospitalized “under constraint”.
A landscaper journalist with the “atypical course”
Recently, this landscaper had appeared at the end of March in the end of March for death threats and harassment against the Chamber of Notaries of Maine-et-Loire. After a real estate sale, “tainted with vices”, then wrote Ouest-Francethe buyer had multiplied the writings against the organization of notaries which he considered responsible for his poor acquisition.
Via press releases, threats to social networks, calls to deputies, to the Keeper of the Seals, the campaign of Philippe Chabert to obtain justice turns into harassment. He even creates a site of which he is the administrator, entitled Observatory independent of the French Notariat. He intends to denounce the questionable practices of the notaries. On LinkedIn, the landscaper, who would have done part of his studies in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) presents himself as a journalist.
The forties also says that he created the “Network Review” “to light the gray areas of the notarial and legal world”. He thus presents himself as a man with a “atypical course” whose fight was “born from a significant personal experience”. “A difficulty encountered with notaries revealed the flaws of a complex system to me (…) I decided to act”.
“I am much less dangerous by verbalizing”
At the helm of the Angers Criminal Court on March 28, Philippe Chabert tried to explain the accusations of harassment and the death threats that he uttered from 2021 to 2023. Then he collapsed in tears, had reported Ouest-France. “I am much less dangerous by verbalizing rather than keeping everything for me and taking action. This is my outlet, ”he had tried to justify.
Deliring persistent claim of claim, Quéralence (a psychiatric term which designates an exaggerated tendency to claim the repair of imaginary damage), paranoia … Psychiatric expertise then highlights the alteration of discernment, real dangerousness and a risk of recurrence, reported the regional daily. Philippe Chabert is sentenced to 10 months suspended prison sentence with an obligation of care and a ban on contacting all the notaries of Maine-et-Loire and appearing before a study for three years.
The danger of Philippe Chabert would therefore have materialized Wednesday evening in his house in Murs-Erigné, on his daughter, Emma. “My big one, my chip, my princess, my chacha, I would always love you you are my one and only girl, I will never forget you we will end up one day at the top. Watch over us and your brother, my chip. You wanted to live you, wrote the teenager’s mom on Facebook. I love you endlessly. »»
In another publication, the grieving mother assures: “My Emma I will fight for justice to be done, even if you will never come back. “Before denouncing in comments:” His dad, it was he who killed him he wanted to kill himself too, he missed (…) No one could have imagined such an act of barbarism. »»
