“There were memories of my mother in that room…” A 46-year-old woman from Roeselare in West Flanders did everything she could a few months ago to convince the Kortrijk judge that she had accidentally set a fire in her then house in Oekene. Yes, ID smoked a cigarette on the kids’ bed. “But I had no intention of killing my partner or losing my children.” Although she still has no explanation for the two sources of fire in the nursery. She was convicted, but although she did not have to go back to jail, the woman appealed her sentence. The public prosecutor’s office now wants to see her behind bars.

