the mother still “actively sought”, what we know about the drama

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Three children from a blended family living in Taninges, in Haute-Savoie, were found dead on Tuesday November 12, 2024, carrying stab woundsand their mother, aged 45, was still “actively sought” in the evening.

A blatant investigation for “intentional homicides” was opened and entrusted to the gendarmes of the Bonneville research brigade, with the support of the Chambéry research section, indicated to actu.fr Bonneville prosecutor Boris Duffau in a statement late Tuesday evening, while the woman, described as depressedremained untraceable.

Victims aged 2 to 13

The victims are “ two boys aged 2 and 11 and a girl aged 13“, specifies the prosecutor. Autopsies and additional assessments will be quickly carried out by the Grenoble Medico-Legal Institute (IML), but “from the first findings, it is established that the victims have stab wounds”.

Several hearings of the close entourage of this blended family are currently underway and the mother, aged 45, is actively being sought.

The children were discovered in a home by their father, who raised the alarm, a source at the gendarmerie told AFP earlier.

Dispatched to the site around 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, emergency services could only note the deaths, firefighters said.

Depressed mother

“The investigation continues to determine the exact circumstances of the commission of the facts,” according to the prosecutor. A medico-psychological emergency unit has been set up at the town hall of Taninges, a mountain town of 3,500 inhabitants in the Giffre valley, approximately 50 km east of Geneva.

The mother, depressed, has been actively sought since the middle of the day, according to a gendarmerie source. She left a letter then headed towards the mountains surrounding Taninges.

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 town. 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.

with AFP.

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