The search to find the mother suspected of having stabbed her three children on Tuesday in Taninges (Haute-Savoie) continues this Wednesday. They are concentrated in the massifs which surround the small mountain town, located around thirty kilometers from the Swiss border. Around sixty gendarmes were mobilized to find this 45-year-old teacher described as depressed.
Divers from Aix-les-Bains, Valence and Evian were also sent to the site to probe the water points. The system is coordinated by the Bonneville research brigade and the Chambéry research section.
A blatant investigation for “voluntary homicides” has been opened, said Bonneville prosecutor Boris Duffau. “The investigation continues to determine the exact circumstances of the commission of the facts,” he added. The mother left a letter then headed towards the mountains surrounding Taninges.
The hypothesis of a flight to Switzerland
“I saw the gendarmes, the helicopter, and that’s it, I didn’t know anything about it, I saw it on the Internet earlier, and then it’s… It’s horrible,” explains Issam, a resident of the cul-de-sac where the family lived, who did not know them. Since the day before, the Choucas helicopter of the gendarmerie “was only circling on the mountain, it was going to the other side, it was doing turns, it was looking in the woods…”, he says, pointing to the heights above the hamlet. But its activity slowed down considerably this Wednesday.
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In Taninges itself, the police were no longer present on Wednesday morning in front of the vast chalet where the family lived, set aside at the end of a dead end in a hamlet at the foot of the mountains. The mother’s dual French-Swiss nationality directed the investigators’ work towards Switzerland. According to The Dauphiné Libéréthe police’s investigations would have allowed them to confirm the flight to Switzerland. The description of his car, a brown Audi SUV, was transmitted to the Swiss authorities associated with the search.
