The Haute-Savoie gendarmes indicated this Tuesday, November 12, 2024 that three children, aged 2, 11 and 13, had been found dead in a house in Taninges, in Haute-Savoie. Course of events, investigation, device… Here is what we know about this triple infanticide.
Three children killed by stabbing
The three children from a blended family are “two boys aged 2 and 11 and a girl aged 13”indicated the Bonneville prosecutor, Boris Duffau, in a press release late this Tuesday, reports theAgence France Presse.
Autopsies and additional expertise will be quickly carried out by the Grenoble Medico-Legal Institute (IML), but “From the initial findings, it is established that the victims have stab wounds”.
The children were discovered in a home by the father who raised the alarm, theAFP a source at the gendarmerie.
Dispatched to the scene around 12:30 p.m., the emergency services were only able to note the deaths, the firefighters specified, confirming information from the Dauphiné Libéré . According to the regional daily, the man who discovered the bodies is the father of the youngest child.
The mother “actively” sought
“Several hearings of the close entourage of this blended family are currently underway and the mother, aged 45, is actively being sought”detailed the prosecutor. The latter, presented as depressed, has been actively sought since the middle of the day, according to a gendarmerie source at theAFP. She would have left a letter then taken the direction of the massifs surrounding Taninges, according to The Dauphiné liberated.
An important system put in place
A large device including around sixty gendarmes and a helicopter were mobilized for the search, theAFP a source close to the investigation.
Gendarmes blocked access to a small isolated alley where the house where the tragedy allegedly took place is located, at the exit of the village, noted a journalist from theAFP on Tuesday evening. In the village there were also gendarmes from the Surveillance and Intervention Platoon (PSIG).
Criminal identification specialists left the scene around 8 p.m. shortly before a funeral home removed the bodies of the three children, noted theAFP.
An open investigation
A blatant investigation for “voluntary homicides” was opened and entrusted to the gendarmes of the Bonneville research brigade with the support of the Chambéry research section, underlined the Bonneville prosecutor, Boris Duffau.
“The investigation continues to determine the exact circumstances of the commission of the facts”he added. A medico-psychological emergency unit has been set up at Taninges town hall.
Taninges is a mountain commune of 3,500 inhabitants in the Giffre valley, about 50 km east of Geneva. Made up of a town center at an altitude of 600 m and several hamlets, it has a small ski resort at an altitude of 1,500 m.
