Lhe mother of three children aged 2, 11 and 13 found dead on Tuesday in a house in Taninges (Haute-Savoie), is “actively sought”, declared the Bonneville prosecutor in a press release.
“Several hearings of the close entourage of this blended family are currently underway and the mother, aged 45, is actively sought,” declared Boris Duffau, specifying that an investigation for “intentional homicides” had been opened. “It is established that the victims have stab wounds,” he added.
“Autopsies and additional assessments will be quickly carried out by the Grenoble Medico-Legal Institute (IML), but from the first findings, it is established that the victims have stab wounds,” added the prosecutor.
A blatant investigation for “voluntary homicides” was opened by the prosecution and entrusted to the gendarmes of the Bonneville research brigade with the support of the Chambéry research section, he said.
A macabre discovery
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.
They were discovered by their father who raised the alarm, a source at the gendarmerie told AFP.
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, a source close to the investigation told AFP.
The three children had stab wounds, according to the daily The Parisian.
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.
According to the National Child Protection Observatory, 60 minors died violently within their family in 2022.
