Taninges, Haute-Savoie: 3 children found dead, family crime suspected

The father of the three children made the macabre discovered when he returned home this Tuesday, November 12. The mother of the family is currently being sought.

What happened this Tuesday at  Taninges, in Haute-Savoie ? At around 1 p.m., report our colleagues from Dauphiné liberéré< /em>, three children aged 2, 11 and 13 were found dead at their home . According to information from Parisien, it was the children's father who made the macabre discovery when he returned home. The children had stab wounds.

The circumstances of the tragedy have not yet been released, but the local press reports that the hypothesis of a family tragedy seems to be the preferred one for the time being. According to France Bleu andLe Parisien, the mother of the family, who is said to be suffering from depressive disorders and was absent from the family home when the father arrived, is being actively sought. Information also confirmed by Le Dauphiné liberéré.

An investigation has been opened by the Bonneville prosecutor's office. It was entrusted to the gendarmerie. This Tuesday, a very large gendarmerie force was deployed. No fewer than sixty men were requisitioned: soldiers from the Bonneville company, as well as soldiers from the Chambéry Research Section, the Departmental Road Safety Squadron (EDSR) and the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM). Technicians from the Haute-Savoie Criminal Identification Unit (CIC) and the Chamonix Air Section helicopter were also assigned to this case, details Le Dauphiné liberé.