This Tuesday, November 12, three children were found dead in a house in Taninges, in Haute-Savoie. Their 45-year-old mother is currently being sought. Here's what we know.
A drama. The lifeless bodies of three children were discovered in a house in Taninges, in Haute-Savoie, this Tuesday, November 12. The victims, aged 2, 11 and 13, presented “stab wounds,” said Boris Duffau, Bonneville public prosecutor during the evening.
A depressed mother wanted
It was the father who raised the alarm around 12:30 p.m. when he discovered the three bodies of his children. For now, the victims' mother, aged 45, is actively being sought.
This would be depressive. According to a gendarmerie source, she left a letter then headed for the mountains surrounding Taninges, according to our colleagues from Dauphiné Libéré, at the origin of the information.
A major gendarmerie system deployed
Also, a large gendarmerie force comprising around sixty gendarmes and a helicopter were mobilized for the search, a source close to the investigation told AFP.
Gendarmes blocked access to a small isolated alley where the house where the tragedy allegedly took place is located, at the exit of the town, noted an AFP journalist 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.
An open investigation
Following this macabre discovery, a blatant investigation for “voluntary homicide” was opened and entrusted to the gendarmes of the Bonneville research brigade, with the support of the Chambéry research section.
