FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP
Hamlet of Taninges, in Haute-Savoie, where three children were found dead on November 12, 2024.
MISCELLANEOUS FACTS – End of search operations. The mother suspected of having killed her three children in Taninges, in Haute-Savoie, was found dead on Wednesday in a car in Champéry, in Val-d'Illiez, in Switzerland. “It is indeed the mother of the three children”named Deborah, indicated the Bonneville public prosecutor this Thursday, November 14 in a press release.
“Swiss authorities have confirmed the identity of the person found deceased”added Boris Duffau, adding that he did not have “autopsy results” on the causes of death of this 45-year-old woman.
Search operations to find this mother began on Tuesday evening, after the tragedy. They continued on Wednesday in the massifs surrounding the small mountain town of Taninges, close to the Swiss border.
The two boys aged 2 and 11 and a girl aged 13, found dead Tuesday afternoon by the father of the youngest child, had stab wounds. Autopsies and additional expertise must be carried out by the Grenoble Medico-Legal Institute (IML). A blatant investigation for “voluntary homicides” was opened, said Bonneville prosecutor Boris Duffau.
The deceased woman was a teacher in a primary school in Marnaz, a village near Taninges, the rectorate of the Grenoble academy told AFP. Presented as “ depressive » by the police, she had left a letter at the family home before fleeing.
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