According to the National Child Protection Observatory, 60 minors died violently within their family in 2022.
Three children aged two, 11 and 13 were found dead on Tuesday in a house located in Taninges in Haute-Savoie (France), AFP learned from the gendarmes and firefighters. Their mother, who is depressed, is currently being sought.
They were discovered by their father who raised the alarm, said a source at the gendarmerie. Emergency services were called around 12:30 p.m., but could only note the deaths, firefighters said, confirming information from Dauphiné Libéré. According to the regional daily, the man who discovered the bodies is the father of the youngest child.
Around sixty gendarmes and a helicopter are mobilized for the search, said a source close to the investigation. The three children had stab wounds, according to the daily Le Parisien.
Taninges is a commune of 3,500 inhabitants in the Giffre valley, located approximately 50 kilometers east of Geneva. The Bonneville prosecutor, who visited the scene, could not immediately be reached.
Last week, two children aged one and four were found decapitated at their home in Sainte-Rose, Guadeloupe, and the mother, found wandering the streets of the town, was interned in a psychiatric hospital.
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