the body found in a car in Switzerland is indeed that of the wanted mother

This Thursday, November 14, the Bonneville public prosecutor's office confirmed that the body discovered in a vehicle in Switzerland the day before is indeed that of the mother, until then actively sought, of the three children found dead in Taninges, in Haute-Savoie, on the 11th. last November.

The day after the macabre discovery of the bodies of three children with stab wounds, in a house in Taninges, in Haute-Savoie, a body was found on Wednesday November 13 in a car in a small village on the Franco-Swiss border. .

This Thursday, the Bonneville prosecutor's office confirmed that it was indeed the body of the mother, until then wanted and suspected of having killed the children.

“The Swiss authorities have confirmed the identity of the person found deceased, it is indeed the mother of the three children,” said prosecutor Boris Duffau in a press release, adding that he did not have “the autopsy results” on the causes of death of this 45-year-old teacher

The woman's body was found in Champéry, a Swiss commune in the canton of Valais.

As a reminder, the bodies of the children, aged 2, 11 and 13, were discovered by the father on Tuesday. The 45-year-old mother was actively sought. This would have been 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.

Also, a large gendarmerie force comprising around sixty gendarmes and a helicopter had been mobilized for the search, a source close to the investigation told AFP.