Nearly sixty gendarmes are still mobilized this Wednesday to find Deborah Pel, the mother of the three children found dead on Wednesday in Taninges, in Haute-Savoie. According to The Dauphiné Libéréshe was reportedly found dead in Switzerland.
A depressed teacher
The regional daily indicates that the Haute-Savoie public prosecutor’s office should communicate “in the afternoon“. The body of this 45-year-old woman was reportedly found in her car at the Swiss border.
Investigators would have directed their research towards Switzerland this Wednesday. The woman suspected of stabbing her children has dual nationality. His car had been reported when it passed through customs in the morning.
“A family integrated” into local life
Aged 45, the teacher – described as depressed – was transferred last year. Several parents of students at a school in Samoëns had criticized him for his severity. The mother was teaching this year in Marnaz, about twenty kilometers from Samoëns.
According to The Dauphiné LibéréDeborah Pel was “well known and involved in local life». «It is a family completely from our village, integrated into our village, which was completely a partner of the village, in the associations, the children, the parents, the grandparents…”confirmed Gilles Péguet, the mayor of Taninges, to France Bleu. “we have a lot of questions and few answers, especially today”he added.
A blended family
Divers from Aix-les-Bains, Valence and Evian were dispatched this Wednesday to probe the water points. The system is coordinated by the Bonneville research brigade and the Chambéry research section.
In Taninges itself, the police were no longer present on Wednesday morning in front of the vast chalet where the family lived, set apart at the end of a dead end in a hamlet at the foot of the mountains, noted AFP .
The helicopter that was circling the day before to help search for the woman was no longer visible either.
Autopsies must be carried out
The three children of a blended family living in Taninges, two boys aged 2 and 11 and a girl aged 13, were found dead on Tuesday afternoon by the grandparents of the youngest child (and not his father, as indicated Tuesday evening), who were worried about not having seen the children at lunch time, according to the mayor of Taninges.
They had stab wounds. Autopsies and additional expertise must be carried out by the Grenoble Medico-Legal Institute (IML).
A blatant investigation for “voluntary homicides” has been opened, said Bonneville prosecutor Boris Duffau. “The investigation continues to determine the exact circumstances of the commission of the facts“, he added. The mother would have left a letter then taken the direction of the massifs surrounding Taninges, according to The Dauphiné Libéré.
This discovery also 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 city hall.
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