The body discovered in a car in Switzerland on Wednesday, November 13, is indeed that of the mother, suspected of having killed her three children the day before in the village of Taninges, in Haute-Savoie, the public prosecutor's office said on Thursday. Bonneville.
“The Swiss authorities have confirmed the identity of the person found dead, it is indeed the mother of the three children”indicates prosecutor Boris Duffau in a press release. He adds that he does not have “autopsy results” on the causes of the death of this 45-year-old teacher, and not wanting to say more in the future.
Taninges, a small town in Haute-Savoie in shock
The bodies of two boys aged 2 and 11 and a girl aged 13 were found on Tuesday November 12 in the house of this blended family living in a tiny hamlet of Taninges, a small mountain town near the Swiss border. A flagrant investigation into intentional homicide was opened pending clarification of “the exact circumstances of the commission of the facts”according to the prosecution.
A major search system was mobilized on Tuesday and Wednesday to find the children's mother, described as depressed. Around sixty members of the police, a helicopter and divers had searched the surrounding massifs and probed the water points. Her body was finally found in Champéry, a Swiss commune in the canton of Valais located approximately 70 kilometers from Taninges in the vehicle she was using “usually”.
The autopsies of the three children, carried out in parallel, confirmed that they died from stab wounds. These homicides caused strong emotion in this mountain town of 3,500 inhabitants in the Giffre valley, approximately 50 kilometers east of Geneva, where a medico-psychological emergency unit was set up at the town hall. . For the mayor, Gilles Péguet, the family, who lived “in a somewhat idyllic setting”is today “devastated”.
