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Found Wednesday in a vehicle in Switzerland, the lifeless body of a woman was formally identified Thursday as that of the mother of three children discovered dead in the small town of Taninges in Haute-Savoie on Tuesday.
The body of the woman found the day before inside a car near the French-Swiss border was formally identified on Thursday November 14. It is indeed that of the mother suspected of having killed her three children on Tuesday in the village of Taninges, in Haute-Savoie.
“The Swiss authorities have confirmed the identity of the person found deceased, it is indeed the mother of the three children,” said the Bonneville prosecutor, Boris Duffau in a press release, adding that he did not have “the results of the ‘autopsy’ on the causes of death of this 45-year-old teacher.
The bodies of two boys aged 2 and 11 and a girl aged 13 were found on Tuesday, bearing stab wounds, in the house of this blended family living in a tiny hamlet of Taninges, a small mountain town near the Swiss border. A blatant investigation for “voluntary homicides” had been opened while waiting for “the exact circumstances of the commission of the facts” to be clarified, according to the prosecution.
A major search system was mobilized on Tuesday and Wednesday to find the children’s mother, described as depressed. Around sixty members of the police, a helicopter and divers had searched the surrounding massifs and probed the water points. Her body was finally found in Champéry, a Swiss commune in the canton of Valais located approximately 70 km from Taninges in the vehicle she “usually” used. The autopsies of the three children, carried out in parallel, confirmed that they died from stab wounds.
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