Three children from a blended family living in Taninges, France. Haute-Savoiehave been found dead at noon on Tuesday. They bore stab wounds. Their mother, aged 45 and described as depressive, remained unaccounted for on Tuesday evening, almost ten hours after the bodies were discovered.
What happened?
The victims are two boys, aged 2 and 11, and a 13-year-old girl. When the father of this blended family arrived home at midday, he discovered the three bodies of the children. He immediately called the emergency services, who arrived on the scene at around 12:30 p.m. and were only able to confirm the deaths. According to Le Dauphiné Libéréthe man who discovered the bodies is the father of the youngest child.
Initial findings have established that the victims had stab wounds,” explained Bonneville public prosecutor Boris Duffau. Further autopsies and expert reports will be carried out rapidly by the Forensic Medical Institute (IML) in Bonneville. Grenoble.
Where’s the mother?
The mother of the three children, aged 45 and described as depressive, has been “actively sought” since midday, according to the public prosecutor. “Boris Duffau added: “Several hearings of the close relatives of this blended family are currently underway.
The mother is said to have left a letter and then headed for the mountains around Taninges, according to Le Dauphiné Libéré. A large force, including some sixty gendarmes and a helicopter, was mobilized to track him down.
What’s the status of the investigation?
On Tuesday evening, gendarmes were blocking access to a small, isolated alleyway at the end of the village where the tragedy is believed to have taken place. Criminal identification specialists left the scene at around 8pm, shortly before the bodies of the three children were removed by an undertaker.
A flagrante delicto investigation for “intentional homicide” was opened and entrusted to the gendarmes of the Bonneville research brigade, with the support of the Bonneville research section. ChambéryBonneville prosecutor Boris Duffau said in a statement late on Tuesday. “The investigation is continuing in order to determine the exact circumstances in which the facts were committed,” explained the prosecutor.
A medical-psychological emergency unit has been set up at the town hall in Taninges, a mountain commune of 3,500 inhabitants in the Giffre valley, about 50 km east of Geneva.