Three children from a mixed family living in Taninges, Haute-Savoie, were found dead on Tuesday, with stab wounds, and their 45-year-old mother was still dead. “actively sought” the afternoon of Wednesday, November 13.
A flagrant investigation for “intentional homicides” was opened and entrusted to the gendarmes of the Bonneville investigation brigade with the support of the Chambéry investigation section, Bonneville prosecutor Boris Duffau reported in a press release on Tuesday. the night, while the woman described. as depressed, he remained untraceable.
The victims are “two boys aged 2 and 11 and a girl aged 13”precise. The Grenoble Medico-Legal Institute will quickly carry out additional autopsies and expert reports, but “From the initial findings it is established that the victims had stab wounds”. “Currently, several hearings are being held regarding the close environment of this mestizo family.”according to the prosecutor.
The mother would have left a letter
The children were discovered in their home by the father who raised the alarm, a gendarmerie source previously reported to Agence France-Presse (AFP). The emergency services, deployed around 12:30 p.m., could only confirm the deaths, the firefighters said, confirming the information from the authorities. Dauphiné Liberé. According to the regional newspaper, the man who discovered the bodies is the father of the youngest child.
“The investigation continues to determine the exact circumstances of the commission of the events”according to the prosecutor. A medical-psychological emergency unit has been created in the Taninges town hall.
According to a gendarmerie source, the mother is being actively searched for. He would have left a letter and headed towards the massifs surrounding Taninges, according to The Dauphiné liberated. A large force composed of about sixty gendarmes and a helicopter was mobilized for the search, a source close to the investigation told AFP.
The gendarmes blocked access to a small isolated alley where the house where the tragedy supposedly took place is located, at the exit of the town, an AFP journalist confirmed on Tuesday night. Gendarmes from the Surveillance and Intervention Platoon (PSIG) were also in the town. Criminal identification specialists left the scene around 8:00 p.m., shortly before a funeral home removed the bodies of the three children, AFP revealed.
