Pictures have emerged of a five-year-old boy who was found dead after allegedly being made to run 'several kilometres' as punishment for wetting the bed.
The child, named Yanis, was found close to a canal near his home wearing just his underwear.
He had suffered a broken nose, and is believed to have died after a cardiac arrest.
It happened in Aire-sur-la-Lys, near St Omer in northern France, when he is believed to have been made to run in the middle of the night on Sunday.
Yanis's auntie, Shpetim Xhafa, wrote in a Facebook tribute: 'Rest in peace my love'.
The boy's 22-year-old mother and 30-year-old stepfather have been arrested.
Prosecutor of Saint-Omer, Patrick Leleu, said the boy was 'forced to run over a distance of several kilometers along the La Lys canal'.
He added: 'A child of five years died in suspicious conditions as to the explanations that have been given, with a medical reason not established at this time. The suspicious conditions of this death led us to put the parents in custody on suspicion of violence causing death.'
A police spokesman told Le Parisien: 'The investigation must determine whether the child died of cold, if this is the result of a fall, or a case of abuse.'
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