She is “actively sought”. The mother, suspected of having killed her three children before fleeing to Taninges (Haute-Savoie), was still nowhere to be found on Tuesday evening, a few hours after the discovery of the bodies of the little victims. An investigation into “intentional homicides” was opened, while a psychological unit was set up in the village.
The investigation will have to determine the circumstances of the tragedy. The father of this blended family discovered the bodies of the three children – two boys aged 2 and 11, and a girl aged 13 – when he arrived at his home at midday. He immediately notified the gendarmerie forces who went to the scene.
“Autopsies and additional expertise 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”, indicated the Bonneville prosecutor, Boris Duffau, in a press release, Tuesday evening.
“Several hearings of the close entourage of this blended family are currently underway and the mother, aged 45, is actively being sought,” informed Boris Duffau on Tuesday evening.
According to information from Dauphiné Libéré, the depressed mother left a letter at her home before fleeing towards the surrounding mountains. Significant search resources – including a helicopter – were deployed to find his trace.
In addition to the search for the mother, the police carried out surveys at the scene of the tragedy. Gendarmes blocked access to a small isolated alley where the house is located at the exit of the town of Taninges. Criminal identification specialists left the scene around 8 p.m., shortly before a funeral home removed the bodies of the three children.
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, Boris Duffau said on Tuesday evening.
Made up of a town center at an altitude of 600 m and several hamlets, the town of Taninges has a small ski resort at an altitude of 1,500 m. According to Le Dauphiné Libéré, a psychological unit has been set up by the town hall.
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