The body discovered on Wednesday in a car in Switzerland is indeed that of the mother suspected of having killed her three children on Tuesday in the village of Taninges, in Haute-Savoie, the Bonneville prosecutor’s office said on Thursday.
“The Swiss authorities have confirmed the identity of the person found deceased, it is indeed the mother of the three children,” indicates prosecutor Boris Duffau in a press release.
He added that he did not have “the autopsy results” on the causes of the death of this 45-year-old teacher, and did not want to say more in the future.
The bodies of two boys aged 2 and 11 and a girl aged 13 were found on Tuesday, bearing stab wounds, in the house of this blended family living in a tiny hamlet of Taninges, a small mountain town near the Swiss border.
A blatant investigation for “voluntary homicides” had been opened while waiting for “the exact circumstances of the commission of the facts” to be clarified, 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, in Valais, around 70 km from Taninges in the vehicle she “usually” used.
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 km east of Geneva, where a medico-psychological emergency unit was set up at the town hall.
For Mayor Gilles Péguet, the family, who lived “in a somewhat idyllic setting”, is today “devastated”.
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