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Freezer Babies Case ‘Reveals French Chauvinism’ The leading French daily Le Monde on Tuesday mused on the implications for French society of the so-called “freezer babies” case, where two dead infants were found killed by their French mother in the freezer of her Seoul home. Columnist Laurent Greilsamer laments how French society and its media “cast scornful glances” on experts from Seoul who conducted the first, and as it turned out accurate, DNA test on the babies. The writer lists the many unanswered questions surrounding the freezer babies, but said more interesting than Veronique Courjault, the culprit, was how people...

Freezer Babies’ Mother Confesses to Killings Veronique Courjault (39), who confessed to killing two infants and putting them in the freezer of her Seoul home, heads into court in Tours, France for a hearing on Thursday. The mother of two dead infants discovered earlier this year in the freezer of a Seoul villa confessed she not only killed the two but murdered a third, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Before the Seorae Village murders, which took place in Nov. 2003, Veronique Courjault in 2002 killed another infant which she then disposed of in a fire, the news agency said. However,...